Gnome Screensaver issues?

[Patrick McFarland]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 01:27, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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?

imo yes, its confusing as hell. gnome-screensaver should conflict with 
xscreensaver.

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