Re: Need info now: Bouncingcow screensaver !?



On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 08:38 -0400, Jim Hartley wrote:
> Interesting, I didn't know there were two different screensaver 
> packages, and I am using the xscreensaver.
For gnome from FC6 onwards gnome-screensaver is used. xscreensaver has
been deprecated.

> 
> I am having a problem with Gnome (running Fedora 6) - when I boot up, I 
> get a message about "could not run Gnome settings daemon" (EVERY TIME, 
bad things happen, but i would like to hunt this down till this is
killed :P

any logs/message in ~/.xsession-errors ?


> 100%), and a few things don't work, but the only one that really 
> bothered me was the screensaver.
as in ?

> 
> On my old system (RH 7.0) I used xscreensaver, so I just added that to 
> the list of things to run at startup and now I have no problems. I 
> suppose I ought to try to fix that "settings daemon" thing ... but I'm 
> getting set to install Fedora 7 on my alternate partition, and with luck 
> that will fix it  :-) .
any luck to share ?

> 
> Jim Hartley
> 
> Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 13:12 -0400, William Case wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi;
> >>
> >> Only the Bouncing Cow screensaver will do.  Used to be able to set the
> >> speed of the bouncing.  It is currently far too fast.  No one would
> >> believe that the cow(s) is using a trampoline.  It must be slowed down.
> >>     
> >
> > Curious, are you using gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver ?
> >
> > afaik, gnome-screensaver does not provide a dialog to configure
> > screensaver options. These option are part of a desktop file saved
> > under /usr/share/applications/screensavers/, and this desktop file would
> > have to be edited .
> >
> > 	$ rpm -ql bounching_cow_package |grep desktop
> >
> >
> >   
> >> How ?? 
> >>
> >>
> >>     
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