[ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntustudio-screensaver

Kaj Ailomaa zequence at mousike.me
Thu Mar 31 20:24:46 UTC 2016


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016, at 08:17 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Whilst looking at something else I came across the
> ubuntustudio-screensaver package. It has not been touched for a long
> time, and is no longer seeded.
> 
> Knowing that screensavers are not the "in thing" any more (most screens
> just go blank these days), I decided to install it to see what it looked
> like.
> 
> It pulls in gnome-screensaver, but nothing else visible seems to happen
> and there is no settings utility appearing in the menu.
> 
> Running "gnome-screensaver --debug" prints some warning about no
> .session being registered or something. Not wanting to spend any more
> time on it, I thought I would ask here:
> 1. Is there some setup step I am missing?
> 2. Does the package need work, or the X-defaults need something set up,
> to help any users installing it?
> 3. Should we just remove it from the archive?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ross
> 

We should probably drop that package, as well as ubuntustudio-sounds.
They are pretty much abandoned. Might as well do it now, before this
release.



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