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Hello,

Is this possible to have Celestia as a screen saver ?

With the following options:
_ management of a list of scripts
_ random start of script
_ rendering options

Another feature can be to have a script that do some random actions.

In theory, you can rename celestia.exe to celestia.scr (in Windows, at least) and then right-click and choose "Install", and then use a script in start.cel for whatever you wanted it to show when it started. But although it works when you click "preview", when it kicks in automatically (ie, after 5 minutes of no mouse movement) it gives a error - "Error reading configuration file". So...

I have tried this with openuniverse, but it also didnt work because of a certain reason...
probably because it lacks certain symbols like a mouse event catcher that kills the screen saver as soon as the mouse is moved.

To the problem with the configuration file: this is because the executable doesn't find itself in its used environment. Some other solution has to be found there.

Sum0 wrote:In theory, you can rename celestia.exe to celestia.scr (in Windows, at least) and then right-click and choose "Install", and then use a script in start.cel for whatever you wanted it to show when it started. But although it works when you click "preview", when it kicks in automatically (ie, after 5 minutes of no mouse movement) it gives a error - "Error reading configuration file". So...

This probably occurs because it's trying to start Celestia with the wrong current directory. It should be pretty easy to fix this, though there's other stuff that should be done for Celestia to work properly as a screensaver.

--Chris

Yes, some sort of hard coded directory traversal. But i doubt most windows users will be able to compile the celestia for themselves :-)