Hi !

> Can it do fullscreen rootwindow in X now?

Yes. LIBGGI_DISPLAY="x:-inroot" ./demo

> What am I personally  planning to do?
> I'm going to start this myself, by making a completely new galaxy
> screensaver, based on libGGI, and submit it when it is ready.

Coool. 

> I expect to need about 28 weeks for it, as I want to use something
> like particle-particle-particle-mesh methods, or maybe one of the
> tree-code methods of fast multipole method. (I study astronomy so
> that's why this particular screensaver interests me)

Ah - interesting ...

>       Learning libGGI:                2 weeks
>       Xwindow programming:            2 weeks
*grin* using LibGGI you might be able to cut that down a little :-).

> matter and gas as a colored halo in 3D?  Might be possible if libGGI
> is able to do fast alpha channeling.

Not yet, and not generally. However there might be simple hacks that achieve 
the desired effect ...

CU, Andy

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