Saucy screensaver

[Cavsfan]

mc4man, if it is not too much trouble I would very much appreciate learning how to do the steps above to fix this problem.
I like learning new things and you'll only have to tell me once.
Thanks

[mc4man]

mc4man, if it is not too much trouble I would very much appreciate learning how to do the steps above to fix this problem.
I like learning new things and you'll only have to tell me once.
Thanks

Sorry - i was involved in seeing if I like this change to ambiance (dark toolbars all around) & how much work it would be to keep reverting if I don't.
(actually don't like in nautilus, prefer just dark window deco & to color toolbar & sidebar the same. Oh well...

I wanted to test a bit on the removing of the dep & actual removal of gnome-screensaver, doesn't seem to be any issue.
Actually went ahead & built a patched gnome-panel in my saucy testing ppa but it'll not be suitable for you as you're using a gnome-panel .deb that was was attached to a bug report & in the case of ppa all panel packages must be updated
(if you know of the patch to fix white panels post a link ..

So anyway -
to do manually & just edit gnome-flashback's control file

Thread with script - you'll want to use the one in post 4 as it uses gedit
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636724

You don't have to do this way - just easier for me to relay
(you could just use a command of
/path/to/scriptname /path/to/exact/packagename

mkdir -p ~/bin && gedit ~/bin/editdeb

copy & paste script into gedit from post 4, save, close gedit (make sure you get the whole script

chmod u+x ~/bin/editdeb

Do a restart to add ~/bin to your path

Now open a terminal & run
editdeb /path/to/exactnameofdebianpackage

Easiest is to just type editdeb in terminal, hit spacebar. Locate the .deb in nautilus & drag & drop the .deb on to terminal. Then click on terminal to return focus, hit enter to run.

gedit should open with the .deb's control file.
On the Depends: line remove gnome-screensaver, see screen (leave a single space between Depends: gnome-settings-daemon.., screen 2.

If desired to prevent an upgrade back to repo version append a .1 to Version: 1:3.6.2-0ubuntu11 or whatever yours is, again see screen 2

Then save gedit & close, there should be a new .deb in your home folder, install with dpkg

Ex. of what I see in terminal here, start to finish -

$ editdeb '/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb'

** (gedit:7501): WARNING **: Could not load Gedit repository: Typelib file for namespace 'GtkSource', version '3.0' not found
Building new deb...
dpkg-deb: warning: '/tmp/deb.xohTsJGax4/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field 'Original-Maintainer'
dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 1 warning about the control file(s)

dpkg-deb: building package `gnome-session-flashback' in `gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11.1_all.modfied.deb'.

Do note that editing a .deb is not always a good idea, in this case is ok, rebuilding source is usually preferred
(hopefully you'll have no issue doing this while using that ppa modded .deb's, let me know...

[muktupavels]

Actually went ahead & built a patched gnome-panel in my saucy testing ppa but it'll not be suitable for you as you're using a gnome-panel .deb that was was attached to a bug report & in the case of ppa all panel packages must be updated
(if you know of the patch to fix white panels post a link ..

Attached zip archive with patch.

[Cavsfan]

Mc4man, I'm a little confused on where the deb is. It is not in /var/cache/apt/archives/ like one would think.

cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-session-flashback
gnome-session-flashback:
  Installed: 1:3.6.2-0ubuntu11
  Candidate: 1:3.6.2-0ubuntu11
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.6.2-0ubuntu11 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

That status file is just a long text file with some of the same stuff from your picture but it is not the deb.
I wonder why I do not have the .deb file?

Also here is the bug for the white panel problem and towards the bottom is albertsmuktupavels's fix for it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/1196177

Which I might say works great if you install both deb packages at the same time.

[mc4man]

Mc4man, I'm a little confused on where the deb is. It is not in /var/cache/apt/archives/ like one would think.

Did you browse to /var/cache/apt/archives/ & confirm it's not there ? (as I mentioned DnD is easier than typing name correctly..
If not there then just re-install & it will show up

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-session-flashback

[Cavsfan]

Did you browse to /var/cache/apt/archives/ & confirm it's not there ? (as I mentioned DnD is easier than typing name correctly..
If not there then just re-install & it will show up

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-session-flashback

That worked and I was able to edit it too. But, I got this in terminal

cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:/var/cache/apt/archives$ editdeb '/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb'

** (gedit:2918): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-TXTT1FsTwZ: Connection refused
Not modfied.

I had to "save as" gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb in my home directory.

Then trying to install the deb I got this:

cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$ sudo dpkg -i gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb
dpkg-deb: error: `gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb
cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$

Thinking is is a permissions or ownership issue I chmod and chown them to be the same root:

cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$ ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb /home/cavsfan/gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1271 Aug  3 14:43 /home/cavsfan/gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71026 Jun 21 00:35 /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb

Yet I still get the same error.

Thanks for you help and patience!

[mc4man]

You do Not want to be at a /var/apt/... prompt when running the script, just open a terminal at your normal user prompt.
Refer back to what I posted "Ex. of what I see in terminal here, start to finish - " & orig. instr.

Now open a terminal & run
editdeb /path/to/exactnameofdebianpackage

Easiest is to just type editdeb in terminal, hit spacebar. Locate the .deb in nautilus & drag & drop the .deb on to terminal. Then click on terminal to return focus, hit enter to run.

gedit should open with the .deb's control file.

If you look at what you posted in first code box it says "not modified" (you don't have permission to do so at that prompt.

Technically you don't even need the script, I thought it would be easier, do you want to abandon it??

[Cavsfan]

I am not sure what to do.

I deleted the .deb file from my home directory and tried it again from the home directory:

cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$ editdeb '/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11_all.deb'
Not modfied.

It still opens the file up in gedit but it changes the name to "control" and it is my tmp directory. That is why I said I had to "save as" to get it to my home directory.

I didn't do anything except reboot to put that script in my PATH. That seemed to be what you told me to do. Was that wrong? Should I have done something else to put it in my PATH?

[mc4man]

I am not sure what to do.


It still opens the file up in gedit but it changes the name to "control" and it is my tmp directory. That is why I said I had to "save as" to get it to my home directory.

It's not changing the .deb to "control", it's opening the control file in gedit so you can edit it. (the whole point of this endeavor
So to repeat -
when the control file opens in gedit, edit it as i mentioned & showed in the 2 screenshots.
After editing the control file in gedit, save (just save, nothing else.
Then close gedit & the new "gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.6.2-0ubuntu11.1_all.modfied.deb" will be created & saved to your home folder ready to be installed with dpkg.
Maybe go back & read my post & look at the screens...

[mc4man]

Maybe this will help

wget http://ubuntuone.com/6SkxW3cqYHWg6LQGRdWtc0

Play it in totem, vlc, whatever (fullscreen would be better