The pretty Fedora screen saver password dialog gone?

Steven Haigh netwiz at crc.id.au
Thu Sep 14 13:39:03 UTC 2006


Quoting Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 23:21 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> I just installed FC5 on a PC and am in the middle of upgrading it to
>> rawhide, and I noticed that this machine I'm on now doesn't have the
>> pretty Fedora screensaver unlock/password dialog.
>>
>> Anyone know where this went or how it can be re-enabled?
>>
>> On my rawhide laptop, I only get a grey dialog box, not the one with
>> the pretty Fedora teardrop thing. I've checked my theme and it is the
>> "Clearlooks" one.....
>
> We disabled the connection between the lock dialog theme and the
> selected screensaver, since it confused people. You can still get the
> themed lock dialog back, by setting the
> key /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme to "system" in
> gconf-editor.

Awesome thanks! Out of interest, what were people getting confused  
over? Were they confusing it with something else? It seems pretty  
straight forward to me, hence I actually thought something had broken ;)

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Steven Haigh

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