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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: kscreensaver: add control to identify running screensaver
- From: Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:15:29 -0500
- Message-id: <87650am0jy.fsf@beth.swift.xxx>
Package: kscreensaver
Version: 4:3.3.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Suppose I look at my screen and see a screensaver that I particularly
like or dislike. There's no easy way to find out what its name is.
Therefore, I suggest an option to enable a key (say, F1 by default)
which when pressed while a screensaver is active, temporarily (say, 3
seconds by default) displays the name of that screensaver, as it
appears in the list of screensavers in the screensaver configuration
panel. It would be nice if the key just superimposed the name on the
running screensaver (it would need its own rectangle of background to
ensure it's readable); but it would serve the main purpose to
interrupt the screensaver with the display of its name, resuming the
screensaver afterwards; and it would still serve the main purpose if
the name display terminated the screensaver like normal keypresses.
Even more barebones, but still much better than what we can do today,
would be a shell command that would tell me what was the last
screensaver that was activatived.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-beth.12
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kscreensaver depends on:
ii kdebase-bin 4:3.3.2-1 KDE Base (binaries)
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.2-1 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libarts1 1.3.2-2 aRts Sound system
ii libasound2 1.0.8-1 ALSA library
ii libaudio2 1.7-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-6 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.2-3 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjack0.80.0-0 0.99.0-6 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii libmad0 0.15.1b-1 MPEG audio decoder library
ii libogg0 1.1.0-1 Ogg Bitstream Library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-8 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvorbis0a 1.0.1-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libvorbisenc2 1.0.1-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libvorbisfile3 1.0.1-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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