Re: Couple of control-center .desktop oddities...

[Michael Hall <mhall riverside org>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 04:40:41PM -0500, jrb@redhat.com wrote:

> > at all, I still got two screensaver-properties.desktop files, one in the
> > Desktop directory, added by the Makefile.am in
> > control-center/capplets/screensaver-properties, and one in the Workspace
> > directory, added by the Makefile.am in
> > control-center/capplets/screensaver-properties/screensaver-desktops.
> > Also the two screensaver-properties.desktop files are not exactly the
> > same, I'm not sure which is more current, but they are both currently in
> > cvs, just in the two different directories.

  For what its worth I've never seen two files here:

$ find /usr/local/GNOME/ -name "*screensaver*"
/usr/local/GNOME/share/control-center/Workspace/screensaver-properties.desktop
/usr/local/GNOME/bin/screensaver-properties-capplet

> e-conf should _not_ be in the control-center package.  It is currently
> maintained in a separate e-conf package.  I think I fixed the
> screensaver thing too...

  As long as we're talking about the screen saver though, I still and always have
had a problem with it. It seems when you start a session it doesn't start the
screen saver with your settings. I have a ~/.gnome/Screensaver file:

[Default]
nice=10
waitmins=10
dpmsmins=20
dpms=false
password=false
mode=Flame

  Yet whenever I start a session I see this with 'ps':

11182   1 S    0:00 /bin/bash -c xscreensaver >/dev/null 2>&1
11184   1 S    0:00  \_ xscreensaver

  Once I go into the control center and resave things I then see this:

16362   1 S    0:04 xscreensaver -no-splash -timeout 10 -nice 10 -xrm *programs:\011/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/flame -root

  Quitting that session and restarting, it reverts back to a generic xscreensaver again
and I once again have to go back into control center and resave things before my settings
take effect. I don't know what I'm missing here or if its a bug or designed that way
but I would think that whenever you start a session it should use your previously
saved settings when starting up xscreensaver ?

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Mike Hall <mhall@riverside.org>, (MH993)   -    http://www.riverside.org
System Administrator (*nix, Perl, CGI hacker, certified OS/2 Specialist)