Gnome Screensaver issues?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Feb 22 06:27:49 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 08:09 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Ben Aldrich wrote:
> 
> > To not be able to configure the screensavers makes 1/2 of them utterly
> > useless.  I think it would be a huge mistake to leave it in this broken
> > state.
> 
> But they _are_ configurable, just not the click-n-forget style.. you need 
> to edit your .xscreensaver-file (if you know the syntax) or 
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xscreensaver*
> 
> or you can install xscreensaver and use the configurator

Speaking of, I noticed it's possible to have gnome-screensaver and
xscreensaver installed at the same time, which causes two "Screensaver"
items with different icons to appear in System->Preferences.  Is this a
bug?

Lee




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