Bug#139388: O: xscreensaver -- Automatic screensaver for X
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of xscreensaver, Larry Daffner
<vizzie@airmail.net>, has orphaned this package. If you want to be
the new maintainer, please take it -- retitle this bug from 'O:' to
'ITA:', fix the outstanding bugs and upload a new version with your
name in the Maintainer: field and a
* New maintainer (Closes: #thisbug)
in the changelog so this bug is closed.
Some information about this package:
Package: xscreensaver
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 5184
Maintainer: Larry Daffner <vizzie@airmail.net>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.34-1.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libpam0g (>= 0.72-1), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), xscreensaver-gnome (= 3.34-1.1) | xscreensaver-nognome (= 3.34-1.1)
Recommends: xli | xloadimage, netpbm, libjpeg-progs, perl5, wordlist
Suggests: xdaliclock, xscreensaver-gl, fortune, www-browser, qcam | streamer
Conflicts: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-1), suidmanager (<< 0.50)
Filename: pool/main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_3.34-1.1_i386.deb
Size: 2063802
MD5sum: 6835bcc59b3fccad7f51e6b238a2e39b
Description: Automatic screensaver for X
The purpose of xscreensaver is to display pretty pictures on your screen
when it is not in use, in keeping with the philosophy that unattended
monitors should always be doing something interesting, just like they do
in the movies.
.
The benefit that this program has over the combination of the xlock and
xautolock programs is the ease with which new graphics hacks can be
installed: you don't need to recompile this program to add a new display
mode, you just change some resource settings. Any program which can be
invoked in such a way that it draws on the root window of the screen can
now be used as a screensaver without modification. The programs that
are being run as screensavers don't need to have any special knowledge
about what it means to be a screensaver.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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