Electricsheep = blank screen

[Mathieu147]

Hi,

I installed Electricsheep. When I go to System → Preferences → Screensaver and choose "Electricsheep", I can see the preview.

If I click on "Preview", I can see the screensaver running fine.

But when my screensaver really starts (or whenever I start it manually by locking the screen), all I have is a blanck screen

Would you guys have a solution?

Thanks!

[wilee-nilee]

The site download works.
http://electricsheep.org/

[Mathieu147]

The site download works.
http://electricsheep.org/

On the site they say to use the version that is in the repositeries... But I'll try, thanks.

[wilee-nilee]

On the site they say to use the version that is in the repositeries... But I'll try, thanks.

Hey do what you want but I have used electric sheep on several computers and it always works with the site download, and just the install from the Ubuntu repo has the same black screen. I think the Ubuntu one works it just takes configuring, that is included in the site download.

[Mathieu147]

I went to the site and downloaded the script. I saw it makes me install billions of packages, including developpment packages. Then it just "make install".

I thought I didn't want a "dirty" install like this, so I begun setting up a virtual machine to install all that stuff and make a deb package with checkinstall.

I left my computer alone during the reboot of the virtual machine after installing the guest additions, and when I came back, my screensaver was working

I did absolutely nothing, but now it works. Pretty strange, but I don't really care as long as it works...

[WorMzy]

I've found that a fresh install of Electricsheep often has a "blank" period where it doesn't show anything, but, as you've found out, it doesn't last too long.

[spotspot]

I went to the site and downloaded the script. I saw it makes me install billions of packages, including developpment packages. Then it just "make install". ...

I did absolutely nothing, but now it works. Pretty strange, but I don't really care as long as it works...

It's now available by synaptic, you don't have to compile from src, ust "sudo apt-get install electricsheep".

[wilee-nilee]

I went to the site and downloaded the script. I saw it makes me install billions of packages, including developpment packages. Then it just "make install".

I thought I didn't want a "dirty" install like this, so I begun setting up a virtual machine to install all that stuff and make a deb package with checkinstall.

I left my computer alone during the reboot of the virtual machine after installing the guest additions, and when I came back, my screensaver was working

I did absolutely nothing, but now it works. Pretty strange, but I don't really care as long as it works...

This is hilarious.