Screensavers for FC5?

Oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Fri Apr 28 05:46:03 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 20:17 -0700, Jim Lowman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Like FC4, I noticed that FC5 has only a few screensavers
> after a clean install.
> 
> I followed the instructions as I did with FC4, namely:
> 
> # yum install xscreensaver-extras xscreensaver-gl-extras
> 
> but still have only a few available on the GUI utility.
> 
> Obviously something has changed.
> 
> Any and all advice welcome.
> 
> Thanks in advance...Jim
> 
        In the gnome-screensaver rpm there is a script named
migrate-xscreensaver-config.sh that will make the needed .desktop files
for you.

	I got rid of the gnome screensaver so I forgot where this script
resides, but a 'locate migrate-xscreensaver-config.sh' will find it for
you.

        The .xml files located in /usr/share/xscreensaver/config need to
be fed to the script so the output will be placed
in /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes directory.

So if you were to cd to the /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes, then
run: /path-to/migrate-xscreensaver-config.sh /usr/share/xscreensaver/config/*.xml
(you must be root to do this!).

Scott




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