Re: control-center and screensaver problem

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>My selfcompiled gnome works very fine now but I still have one stupid
>problem with the screensaver (3.07):
>The screensaver works, but it always starts a random hack. When I try to 
>change it from the control-center (1.0.5) there are only two options to
>choose, merely "no screensaver" and "random screensaver". Although there 
>are all necessary files in /usr/local/gnome/share/control-center/.data I 
>cannot select anything.
>I really dont know where I could look now to fix this problem.
>As I already said, gnome starts the screensaver, but I feel helpless
>telling him which one he shall start.
>I dont want to put a script for xscreensaver in .Xdefaults in order to
>start the right hack. I want to choose it with gnome.

I have the same problem. I think you need a .desktop file for each hack. I 
think these are included in the RPM but not in the tarball, so you might have 
to create your own .desktop files, or install the RPM, copy the files, and 
uninstall it  =OZ


Michael Rogers