
Xscreensaver
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this is how to use Xscreensaver in KDE
it is easy
1: Switch off KDE's screen saver.
Open the ``Control Center'' and select the ``Look and Feel / Screensaver'' page. Turn off the ``Enable Screensaver'' checkbox.
2: Find your Autostart directory.
Open the ``Look and Feel / Desktop / Paths'' page, and see what your ``Autostart'' directory is set to: it will probably be ~/.kde3/Autostart/ or something similar.
3: Make xscreensaver be an Autostart program.
Create a file in your autostart directory called xscreensaver.desktop that contains the following five lines:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=xscreensaver
Name=XScreensaver
Type=Application
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
Now use xscreensaver normally, controlling it via the usual xscreensaver-demo (1) and xscreensaver-command (1) mechanisms.
hclsmith
17 years ago
Q: Is KDE supposed to be able to configure its xsreensaver SSs? Does it need to know where the xml files are? (IE does the NetBSD pkg install it wrong?) Or not? (If not, is it coming?)
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megaspaz
17 years ago
btw, to add a kde screensaver to xscreensaver, just add "kde_screensaver_name.kss --root" to your ~/.xscreensaver file. if you need to find the name *.kss screensaver, just do a find *.kss or something like that.
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megaspaz
17 years ago
actually an example line of adding a kde screensaver to xscreensaver would look like:
GL: "Euphoria" keuphoria.kss --root \n\
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Skyreacher
17 years ago
I only have four screensavers listed in KDE.
In GNOME, I have oodles of them.
I'm confused.
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Skyreacher
17 years ago
Yay for RTFM!
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aaronjb
17 years ago
Read the docs, this is standard behavior
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protoman
17 years ago
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illogic-al
17 years ago
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Strider
18 years ago
Strid...
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stunji
17 years ago
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onyx
18 years ago
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tpr
18 years ago
Or maybe I've done something else.. At least it works with my 3.1 and with 3.1.90, too..
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onyx
17 years ago
i installed it and nothing changed
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bradenm
18 years ago
I think that they are dectected at compile time however, so maybe this is why you don't see them.
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onyx
18 years ago
what distro are you running?
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