Adding more screensavers in FC5

[alan]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Oldman wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 18:36 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recetly tried adding more screensavers by installing the
>> xscreensaver-extras and xscreensaver-gl-extras packages, but the Gnome
>> screensaver still only allows me to choose from those that come with the
>> gnome-screensaver package. I'm faily sure that I read at several sites that
>> the Gnome screensaver would recognize screensavers from the
>> xscreensaver-*-extras packages.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards
>> Ingemar
>>
> 	In the gnome-screensaver rpm there is a script named
> migrate-xscreensaver-config.sh that will make the needed .desktop files
> for you.
>
> 	The .xml files located in /usr/share/xscreensaver/config need to be fed
> to the script so the output will be placed
> in /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes directory.
>
> So if you were to cd to the /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes, then
> run: /path-to/migrate-xscreensaver-config.sh /usr/share/xscreensaver/config/*.xml
> (you must be root to do this!).

For those who want the quick version:

cd /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes
/usr/libexec/gnome-screensaver/migrate-xscreensaver-config.sh \ 
/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/*.xml


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