Alisdair Kelly
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Joined: May 2004 |
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Posted: Aug. 17 2004,12:44 |
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Good morning All.
I've spent some more time working with the xscreensaver over the past few days. Did a little editing
of the /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver-nog file. The author suggests using a minus sign (-) to comment out
settings when editing this file. I found that if I used the # sign it was just as effective. In editing the file,
the screens that could not execute ("No such file or folder") were actually commented out by the author.
I let the program cycle through as many of the screens as I thought it could find, then re-edited the
/etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver-nog! file to allow those screens if they were listed to be executed.
The xscreensaver executes those screens at ramdom as best as I understand the manual.
I have also edited my copy to permit the powering down of the monitor, again the same file controls that aspect
of xscreensaver. I have not been able to access the GUI to adjust the program at all, nor access the help menu.
Instead, I read and re-read the manual, then did my editing of the /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver-nog! file while
operating as root.
This all seems to have cleared up my problems with the program except accessing the GUI, which isn't needed.
Earlier it was mentioned stripping the program down to a smaller size. I'm sure someone who is more
of a programmer than I could do this. The most recent version that I can find of the program is still around 3.8mb making
it pretty much too big for regular inclusion in DSL. I do like it for the many different, ramdomly accessed screens.
I'm not sure if it has cycled through all of the many screens that are listed in the master file yet. I've enabled
enough of them by removing the minus (-) sign and have not seen the error message repeat on those
screens as yet.
HtH
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Cheers,
Alisidair
(or you can call me Al)
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