Replacing gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver
Jeffrey D. Yuille
jeffy5 at optonline.net
Fri Apr 7 22:44:13 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:06 -0400, Johnny wrote:
> I'd like to replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver. I'd tried:
>
> $ killall gnome-screensaver
> $ xscreensaver
> $ gnome-session-save
>
> but alas, when I log out and back in I find that gnome-screensaver is
> running and xscreensaver is not. I'm looking for a more elegant
> solution than deleting the gnome-screensaver executable and copying
> xscreensaver in its place, although that solution is looking more and
> more attractive. Thanks.
>
In order to install xscreensaver, you must install
xscreensaver-base, xscreensaver-extras, xscreensaver-gl-extras. Then
you must remove gnome-screensaver by "yum -y remove gnome-screensaver".
When you go to "System-Preferences-Screensaver", you will find that the
gnome-screensaver is no longer there. I hope that this helps.
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