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Thread: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    Quote Originally Posted by lost.sync View Post
    thanks to both of you for the HowTo and the app but i'm still left wondering...why aren't these settings just availible from within the gnome-screensaver dialog? 'few options, sane defaults,' okay i get it but i mean...c'mon...
    http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensav...AskedQuestions
    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...5&postcount=17
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654
    https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...ver/+bug/22007
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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    It might be me but for some reason when I try to open the file in themes with gedit, all I get is a blank gedit file. What am I doing wrong?

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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    How would I change settings that are global to all screensavers, like where to pull pictures from?

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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    Your guide is great!. Thanks for posting it, worked fine for me.

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    Red face Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    hey guys, i was looking in the /usr/share/gnome-screensaver directory and i found that there was a glade project file sitting there....

    Code:
    ~$ ls /usr/share/gnome-screensaver
    gnome-screensaver-preferences.glade  themes
    any ideas as to its purpose?
    Last edited by airtonix; October 21st, 2006 at 06:30 PM.
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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    How would I change settings that are global to all screensavers, like where to pull pictures from?
    Hey there - did you ever figure out that one?

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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    Quote Originally Posted by Bil-E-daKid View Post
    Hey there - did you ever figure out that one?
    Nope, afraid not. I didn't get too much time to try though, as I 'upgraded' to kubuntu a short time afterwards. So it might still be in there somewhere.

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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    I believe the "Pictures Folder" screensaver pulls images from /home/username/Pictures and the "GLSlideshow" screensaver pulls images from /usr/share/backgrounds but this may depend on your version of Ubuntu and/or the screensaver package. I'm running Edgy on 3 different systems now and the screensaver situation is buggy. For example on one of these systems, both of the image screensavers I just mentioned work fine in the screensaver preview, but they don't display any images (just a blank screen) when the screensaver actually kicks in after the system becomes idle. On another system they seem to work OK sometimes, but other times they just display a blank screen like the first system does.

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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    Oh - oh!! I figured it out all by myself.

    On my edgy machine at work (where GLSlideshow works fine), I have the following line in a '.xscreensaver' file in my home folder:

    imageDirectory: /home/wgordon/media/wallpapers/screensavers

    On my edgy machine at home (where GLSlideshow just plays some standard backgrounds), there was no .xscreensaver file.

    I SSH'd my work one home, modified that line to point to where the images are at home and then logged in to home remotely (using FreeNX) to test it - now it works fine at home as well.

    So there you go, gnome-screensaver/GLSlideshow still looks at the .xscreensaver file for some configuration options.

    Wooohooo!

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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    Quote Originally Posted by airtonix View Post
    hey guys, i was looking in the /usr/share/gnome-screensaver directory and i found that there was a glade project file sitting there....

    Code:
    ~$ ls /usr/share/gnome-screensaver
    gnome-screensaver-preferences.glade  themes
    any ideas as to its purpose?
    The suggested "fix" does not on Edgy because of this issue!! The directory you should be looking at is /usr/share/applications/screensaver

    Now to find out how to copy and modify the glslideshow.desktop file so that I can create several screensavers that use different directorys as the source.
    Last edited by hazza96; November 11th, 2006 at 11:31 AM. Reason: Found the answer and wanted to let everyone know.
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