Crashable screen saver

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 15:47:21 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com> wrote:
>> Could someone point me to the configuration file that points to the
>> current screen saver, please?
>
> Assuming this is Gnome (not KDE or others) the setting is in the gconf registry.
>
> try
>
> gconftool-2 --type list --list-type string --set
> /apps/gnome-screensaver/themes [screensavers-gltext]
>
> That should set your screensaver to the gltext one.

There's a gconf GUI tool too I should mention - but I don't have an
Ubuntu box in front of me at the second.

Brian




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