New Ubuntu glslidshow is missing a little button

[Seth Hasani]

On 5/29/06, Alex Janssen <alex at ourwoods.org> wrote:
> Pardon me for replying to my own question.  See below...
>
> Alex Janssen said the following on 05/29/2006 08:35 PM:
> > I've got one really important question that I know someone on this
> > list must know the answer to.  How do you set the directory for the
> > glslideshow screen saver, now?  I could do it in version U5.10,  but
> > there appears to be a missing "Advanced" button on the screensaver
> > preferences dialog panel in this version.  Where's the config file?  I
> > could edit that if I new its name.

> I finally figured out that the xscreensaver had been replaced with the
> gnome-screensaver and if I wanted to change the configuration for the
> glslideshow, I needed to install the xscreensaver to do so.
> It works,  but is a little convoluted.  I guess someone will add
> settings capability to the gnome-screensaver someday as it is now the
> standard for Ubuntu.

Yeah this is big gripe about gnome-screensaver. A bit too HIG-ified
(dumbed-down) for my tastes. That aside, glslideshow and others still
honor the old ~/.xscreensaver file for configuration if it exists. So
you need a line like this in ~/.xscreensaver to set your images
directory for glslideshow:

     imageDirectory: /home/username/pictures/slideshow

and optionally:

     chooseRandomImages: True

Seth