Screensavers

[Kyle Pointer]

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 18:21 +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> Kyle Pointer wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 16:55 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On 5/14/05, Mike Chambers <mike at netlyncs.com> wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Second, I had the same problem, and removing the .xscreensaver dir and
> >>>even rebooting didn't populate the screensavers.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>no screensavers come with the base screensaver package
> >>do you have xscreensavers-extras or -extras-gl installed?
> >>    
> >>
> >And another thing. When you install xscreensaver all the extra
> >xscreensaver packages are installed be default!
> >
> 
> you are sure ?
> 
> >So unless he did
> >something really odd during installation its because of
> >the .xscreensaver config and has nothing to do with whether or not he
> >has those extra packages installed.
> >
> 
> mine was a clean, fresh FC4t3.ppc installation,
> and yes, only  "xscreensaver-base"  was here.
> 
> # yum -d0 list *screensaver*
> Installed Packages
> xscreensaver-base.ppc                    1:4.21-4               installed
> Available Packages
> xscreensaver-debuginfo.ppc               1:4.21-4               development
> xscreensaver-extras.ppc                  1:4.21-4               development
> xscreensaver-gl-extras.ppc               1:4.21-4               development
> 
> 
> and yes, immediately after installing  "xscreensaver-gl-extras"  all was ok.
> 
Well thats odd. Perhaps its because I always did the INSTALL ALL :) 
But anyways, the lack of screensaver packages probably isn't the
problem. Try putting that attachment in ~/ :)
-- kyle