Re: gnome-screensaver and swf

[Grant Williamson <grant williamson gmail com>]

Hi Jon,
   first of all thanks for your reply. I know mentioned gflashplayer, 
tried it with both versions 6 & 9.
i tried what you suggested and it fails for me with both versions. I 
guess its a bug report for Adobe.

William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> I'm cc'ing the screensaver list.
>
> On 1/18/07, Grant Williamson <grant williamson gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello William,
> >     I work for a company where we maintain a number of linux desktops,
> > we have in the past used flash files, to display custom screensavers on
> > linux. We used xscreensaver and gflashplayer, worked reasonably well. I
> > am curious if there is a way to do this with gnome-screensaver.
> >
> > I have tried making desktop files in /usr/share/applications/screensaver
> > and either running the command * from there or linking it to an
> > executable script in /usr/libexec/gnome-screensaver, however
> > gflashplayer only gets launched after gnome-screensaver exits. Any
> > idea's how I can get gnome-screensaver to call this command? Wrapper or
> > something ..
> >
> > */opt/gflashplayer/gflashplayer.sh -root /opt/screensavers/test.swf
> >
> > I don't want to go back to xscreensaver, rather use what the
> > distribution provides, that being gnome-screensaver.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Grant.
>
> I haven't used this before so I grabbed the FP9 standalone player [1]
> to test this.
>
> It seems like FP9 has renamed the player from gflashplayer to 
> flashplayer.
>
> % flashplayer -h
> Usage: flashplayer [OPTION]... [SWF_FILE]...
> Options:
>  -h, --help            Display this help and exit
>  -root                 Use root window for xscreensaver
>                        [SWF_FILE] required in this mode
>  -window-id <id>       Window ID for xscreensaver-demo preview
>
> Report bugs to <flashplayerunix macromedia com>.
>
> We won't be able to use the -root option with gnome-screensaver
> because we don't mess with virtual roots but simply rely on the
> $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW environment variable.  So, we should be able to
> use window-id.  For example, this is how I would expect it to work:
>
> * make sure flashplayer is in /usr/bin or similar
> * install a script like the one attached to this message into
> PREFIX/libexec/gnome-screensaver
> * install a .desktop file like the one attached into the directory
> listed by `pkg-config --variable=themesdir gnome-screensaver`
>
> However, at least in the version that I have it doesn't seem to
> recognize the -window-id option.  Does this work for you?  If not then
> perhaps we should report this as a bug to
> <flashplayerunix macromedia com>.
>
> Jon
>
> [1] http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp9