Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:57:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xscreensaver - advanced settings for savers? Message-ID: <20060504125520.M81868@creme-brulee.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20060504090620.GA81878@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20060504090620.GA81878@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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On Thu, 4 May 2006, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > Hi, > > After going through the upgrade from Gnome 2.12 to 2.14 I found that I > can't tune the settings for the screensavers any more. > > In the previous gnome-release (2.12) when going to the properties of > the active screensaver one could e.g. change the character size of the > xmatrix saver. > > In gnome 2.14 when starting gnome-screensaver-preferences you can > select which screensaver to use but can't change any specific settings > for the saver in question. > > So here are my questions: > > o) How can I select specific settings for the screensaver selected > with the gnome-screensaver-preferences No. You will need to replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver-gnome if you want the old behvaior. > > o) Is there a user-editable config-file that stores the settings (I > thought about hand-editing this file) There are XML config files in /usr/X11R6/share/xscreensaver/config that can be hand-edited. > > Please note, that the settings are not stored in ~/.xscreensaver. I've > renamed this file (which dates back to somewhere in 2005) and it > doesn't get re-written upon start/stop of gnome. Right. That file is only used by xscreensaver. > > Here's what I've installed (i.e. screensaver-related): > > xscreensaver-gnome-hacks-4.24_1 > gnome-screensaver-2.14.1 You'll need to uninstall both of these and reinstall xscreensaver-gnome to restore the old functionality. Joe > > Thanks much in advance for your help, > -ewald > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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