xscreensaver configuration

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ayqazi

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Wednesday, February 8th 2006, 10:34pm

xscreensaver configuration

Hi,

I read this in the xscreensaver FAQ:

Quoted

13. I'm running KDE, and it's ignoring my changes, or all the modes aren't listed, or it's behaving weird in some other random way. What gives?

Instead of using the usual xscreensaver mechanisms, the KDE folks have chosen to roll their own screen saver wrapper that is inferior to the xscreensaver-demo way of doing things in any number of ways.

The only sensible (and secure) way to use a screen saver under KDE is to turn off KDE's built-in screen saver, and use xscreensaver instead. How you go about this is explained in the ``Using KDE'' section of the xscreensaver manual.

The GNOME people used to have the same class of bugs as the KDE folks now have, but the GNOME crew finally came to their senses, and we worked together to come up with a solution that resulted in their being one and only one xscreensaver configurator, instead of two: mine and theirs.

Will the KDE people wise up and do the same? Only time will tell. I encourage you to encourage them.

Well? When will you come to your senses :-) No really, it'd be nice to be able to use xscreensaver out-of-the-box "properly" instead of using what I feel are 'hacks' to get it to work by configuring it with the xscreensaver-demo program.

Thanks,
Asfand Yar

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daihard

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Location: Lynnwood, WA, USA

Occupation: Senior Database Software Engineer

Saturday, February 18th 2006, 11:13am

Do you mean you're having difficulties configuring your screensaver using KDE Control Centre? It's been working well for me at least...

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ayqazi

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Saturday, February 18th 2006, 4:21pm

Look, using existing solutions reduces workload, is less buggy and is more standard. That's the point I'm making. And is more secure, according to the xscreensaver FAQ question I just posted. I'm just posting something I think would make KDE even better.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "ayqazi" (Feb 18th 2006, 4:23pm)

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bram85

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Saturday, February 18th 2006, 4:42pm

Of course, we are already aware of the whole xscreensaver thing.

Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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daihard

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Location: Lynnwood, WA, USA

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Saturday, February 18th 2006, 7:22pm

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Originally posted by ayqazi
Look, using existing solutions reduces workload, is less buggy and is more standard. That's the point I'm making. And is more secure, according to the xscreensaver FAQ question I just posted. I'm just posting something I think would make KDE even better.

Chill out, dude... I was just trying to understand what you were getting at...

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ayqazi

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Saturday, February 18th 2006, 11:26pm

And that's why I was just explaining what I meant a little bit better ;-)

I wasn't aware of the xscreensaver issue already being raised - I did a search and nothing came up. Glad it's being taken care of.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "ayqazi" (Feb 18th 2006, 11:27pm)

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