Re: Woody/KDE3.1RC7 debs : Screensavers Report

[Michael Hoodes <Michael@Hoodes.com>]

Paul, 

Thanks for the clarification - I understood that. 

BUT - The XScreensaver Option does not work (on both Woody and Sid kde 
3.1) (I have installed both xscreensaver and xscreensaver-nognome) as I 
believe  the xscreensaver program does  not run as a daemon by 
xscreensaver.kss.  

Definition of not working:  The screen is blanked at the correct time,
but the xscreensaver screensaver is not displayed.  However the 
blank screen is ended properly by a mouse or keyboard movement.

I think that kde can avoid running xscreensaver as a daemon by providing
a random selection of screensavers when XScreensaver option is chosen.

Would that work?  i.e. put randomizing code in xscreensaver.kss similar
to what I use for display of random Eterm pixmaps:
      background %random(`cat pixmaps.list 2>/dev/null`)

But I am not enough familiar with perl to put that (or similar code) in 
the kss file.  Or indeed if that is the solution for getting the 
xscreensaver program to run properly. 
 
Michael 

On Monday 27 January 2003 at 6:48 am, Paul Cupis wrote:
... 
> Not quite sure what my point is, but I hope that clarifies things
> somewhat.
>
> Paul Cupis
> - --
> paul@cupis.co.uk