Re: setting screensaver prefs

[Raul Acevedo <raul cantara com>]

Actually, in the case of xscreensaver, since it depends on GNOME libs,
it should be included as part of what GARNOME downloads and builds.
Again, especially because it's such a basic, fundamental desktop
application. 

I "solved" my problem by downloading and building (with --prefix=
$GARNOME) the latest xscreensaver.  It was able to automatically detect
everything and install itself just fine... the next time I started the
panel it was in the right menu location.

Raul

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:01 -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:52 +1000, Paul Drain wrote:
> 
> > xscreensaver (and xscreensaver-demo) are shipped by your distribution as
> > packages. To cut down on overzealous duplication of menu entries, the
> > gnome-vfs garball ships with a patch called 'garnome-items-only', which
> > removes all of the distribution dependant options in your menus, in
> > favour of the ones that ship in your garball.
> 
> I know this isn't off-list, but it's worth discussing.
> 
> It's a valid point but the solution is simple: post-install, check if
> those distribution-dependent things are there, and if so, include them
> in the menus.  At least some basic things --- like xscreensaver --- are
> both easy to check (just do `which xscreensaver`) and fundamental enough
> that they should be included.
> 
> Raul
>