Clock screensaver?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 16 05:47:58 UTC 2007


On 07/15/2007 01:10 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> David Armour wrote:
> 
>>>> Thanks. I was actually looking for an analog clock like the one in
>>>> Kubuntu.
>>>>     
>>> Ah, never mind.  Obviously you knew about that one :-)  Try installing it
>>> - I'm not sure it will have any obvious dependencies on KDE.
>>>   
>> I'd sure like to know how to do that! Screensaver themes are stored in
>> /usr/share/applications/screensavers. Kde screensavers, on the other
>> hand, ....are stored in /usr/share/applnk/System/Screensavers. And I do
>> tend to get hung up -- still -- on the ol' permissions issue. Still,
>> could it be as simple as copying kclock.kss from
>> /usr/share/applnk/System/Screensavers into the appropriate
>> gnome-specific subdirectory? The hell you say!
> 
> It shouldn't even be that difficult.  The actual kclock.kss is
> in /usr/bin/kclock.kss.
> 
> I don't know enough about screensavers to know whether it really has any KDE
> dependencies, or if those are just about the window manager's interactions
> with the screensaver.  

No idea how to get it to run in Gnome (no time right now:-), but it runs
just fine from the terminal.

http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/kclock_kss






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