Missing Screensavers

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Tue Jun 14 11:05:56 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:00:35AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:36:32PM -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > They are not installed by default because some are offensive and some
> > may crash a users system (gl screen savers mostly).  So we ship with
> > only one - blank screen.  You can however get xscreensaver-extras and
> > xscreensaver-gl-extras as someone else has pointed out.
> 
> Also some of them use sections of the users screen for amusing
> effects. Thats a nasty suprise that some people don't welcome when they
> are using "lock" mode.

All that is a none-issue if the default setting for xscreensaver would
be "blank screen" (no matter wether the others are installed or not),
or am I missing something?


Best regards,
Daniel

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