Re: Woody/KDE3.1RC7 debs : Screensavers Report
What I have done was apt-gotten xscreensaver-nognome
and xscreensaver which set the scene for kde for both
Woody (xscreensaver 3.09) and Sid (xscreensaver 3.10)
Other comments have been made about doubles in the list
and that XScreensaver does not seem to work.
I have looked at the doubles and it appears that there are different
screensavers for each of the doubles i.e. Gravity, Gravity (GL), or
Bouble, Bouble.
xscreensaver program works well (on kde 3.1 RC6 and RC7) when a
specific screensaver is chosen. However the option XScreensaver does
not work which is a random display of screensavers. The random option
is what I would like.
I believe the problem with XScreensave is the improper operation of
/usr/bin/xscreensaver.kss. Has anyone got the xscreensaver option
working? And do you have a "good" xscreensaver.kss?
The way kde executes the xscreensaver modules is by executing
either the xscreensaver program or the module each time - i.e.
xscreensaver is not run as a daemon.
If kde provides the randomization then the current way of executing
xscreensaver program (on demand) would work.
jwz the author of xscreensaver in the past has not been exactly happy
with the way kde has handled xscreensaver and I am glad that it
appears kde is treating it correctly!
On Sunday 26 January 2003 at 6:33 am, Paul Cupis wrote:
Michael
> Yes.
>
> xscreensaver-nognome does depend on xscreensaver. So does
> xscreensaver-gnome.
>
> xscreensaver depends on xscreensaver-gnome | xscreensaver-nognome,
> and those two packages conflict with each other (i.e. installing
> xscreensaver package will pick one, probably xscreensaver-gnome
> unless you already have, or are installing xscreensaver-nognome).
>
> Bleh, that doesn't read very nice. Anyway, gnome users should use
> xscreensaver-gnome, kde users should use xscreensaver-nognome. IMHO,
> apt-get-ing the xscreensaver package may pick the wrong one of these
> by default.
>
> My 2¢
>
> Paul Cupis
> - --
> paul@cupis.co.uk
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