[ubuntu-studio-users] lack of screensaver

[Ross Gammon]

Glad you managed to work it all out David! And thanks for the tips for
others that are also missing them.

I am afraid that screensavers are not the "in thing" they once were (in
the days of CRT screens), and many distros no longer set them up by
default. The Ubuntu Studio screensaver package was deliberately dropped
because of this, and because of the lack of resource to maintain the
package.

Cheers,

Ross

On 08/08/2016 12:13 PM, David King wrote:
> I had installed xscreensaver already, even saw the settings for it, but
> no settings in the Settings Manager. Then I looked for it in Synaptic,
> and found it was no longer installed, although its related files were
> still installed. So I reinstalled xscreensaver, now it is working and
> settings option is available in Settings Manager.
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/08/16 11:01, David King wrote:
>>
>> I have recently installed Ubuntu Studio 16.04, but cannot find any
>> screensaver options. Even the ubuntustudio screensaver is no longer
>> available, according to
>> http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/xenial/universe/base/ubuntustudio-screensaver
>>
>> Does this mean that we can no longer use a sceensaver?
>>
>> I installed a screensaver package, but cannot find any way to change
>> the settings.
>>
>> This all worked fine in 14.04, so why no longer in 16.04?
>>
>>
>>
>> David King
>>
>>
>>
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