Xscreensaver transitions

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Mon Apr 3 21:15:04 UTC 2006


On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:55:58 +0200
Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Montag, den 03.04.2006, 07:05 +0530 schrieb Sridhar M.A.:
> > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 11:15:01AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> >    >  
> >    > Isn't the, "Cycle after <n> minutes," what you want?  The description
> >    > says, "How long each display mode should run before choosing a new one
> >    > (in Random mode.)"
> >    > 
> > Yes. But I could not find it under Preferences->Screensaver. Please see
> > my answer to another comment on this thread.
> please run gconf-editor if you urgently need to change that value, the
> key you want is:
> /apps/gnome-screensaver/cycle_delay
> set it to the desired value and you are set ...

*Sigh* - and I thought the idea was to make Gnome more "User Friendly".

So now people are supposed to use gconf-editor to set a simple screensaver
value.

Sad, truly sad...

Peter
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