Gnome Screensaver issues?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Feb 22 06:41:45 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 08:34 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> (no need to CC, I'm on the list)
> 

The listserv should set Reply-To then.  Reply-To-All should always DTRT.

> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> I don't think so, because if you install xscreensaver, you know what you 
> are doing. You can always use the menu-editor to disable either one.

All I did was "apt-get dist-upgrade" from Breezy, then later installed
gnome-screensaver.  Should the upgrade it have replaced xscreensaver
with gnome-screensaver?

Lee




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