Re: xscreensaver and gnome

[Michael Perry <mperry basin com>]

Quoting Markus Teich on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 08:30:59PM +0200:
>  hi all i installed the newest xscreensaver package 
>  but i only can select the no screensaver and random screensaver in the gnome 
>  menu how can i select all the hacks i isntalled ..i can select the modules if i use  xscreensaver-demo ..but i want to select them from within my gnome 
>  configuration tool..but there are  no available!
>  what is wrong
>  anyone can help????
> 
> 
> 
>  would be great...
>  markus
> 
Here is what happened to me.  YMMV.  I downloaded and compiled the latest
xscreensaver for my SuSE 6 system but gnome could not find it.  So I got
no hacks at all but random or none.  I then downloaded the earlier
xscreensaver rpm file at the 3.07 level and rpm'ed it in.  The rpm packages
for gnome were happy I guess because I got hacks back.  I commented out my
xscreensaver starting in .xinitrc and moved my .xscreensaver out to another
name so I could use gnome's screensaver function.  If I did not do this, the
screensaver rotates to all the hacks I had installed in the .xscreensaver no
matter which ones I selected in gnome.

I have not noticed any unusual problems here installing the later tarball
and then rpm'ing the earlier xscreensaver in to satisfy the rpm dep.

-- 
Michael Perry
mperry@basin.com
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