What happened to all the gnome screensavers?

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Feb 11 19:06:55 UTC 2006


Miles Lane wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:31:05AM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>> It looks like all the previous xscreensavers are gone!
>>>
>>> Looks like now only the ones in /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes are
>>> used - with the ones in /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/* being ignored.
>>>
>>> Is this part of a migration or an oversight?
>> rpm -e gnome-screensaver
>> yum install xscreensaver-extras xscreensaver-gl-extras
> 
> I tried this and now cannot figure out how to configure/enable
> the screensaver.  There is no entry in the System->Preferences list.
> 

run from a user terminal the command xscreensaver-demo
or /usr/bin/xscreensaver-demo

I have the screensaver on the menu under System > Preferences . screensaver.
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