On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Scott Doty <scott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/31/2011 12:18 PM, Pasha R wrote: >> >> So, lets tackle the screensaver issue again. As I understand from >> your answer there are currently no plans to return screensavers other >> than blank screen - it is not a temporary matter of lack of resources. >> I would like to see this decision reversed. > > Hi Pasha, > > As a workaround, you can do what I did, and install xscreensaver. It > continues to have the complete set of legacy, gl, etc. screensavers that > we've seen developed over the last 20 years. > > (You'll also have to go into gnome-session-properties to take out > gnome-screensaver and add xscreensaver.) > > _[/home/scott]_(scott@m5)_ > $ rpm -qa | grep "^xscreensaver" > xscreensaver-base-5.14-1.fc15.x86_64 > xscreensaver-gl-base-5.14-1.fc15.x86_64 > xscreensaver-5.14-1.fc15.x86_64 > xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.14-1.fc15.x86_64 > xscreensaver-extras-5.14-1.fc15.x86_64 > xscreensaver-extras-base-5.14-1.fc15.x86_64 > > > I would also like to point out that contradicting someone's ideas isn't > necessarily hostile, but is necessary for expressing different points of > view... Thanks. I didn't realize it is still present in fedora. I always liked xscreensaver responsiveness. With gnome-screensaver, it sometimes takes few seconds until it swaps in its login dialog, even on quite modern machine, while xscreensaver always presented its dialog instantly, even on my old P3 with 256Mb RAM. Still, I believe that ability to choose screensaver is a nice feature that should not be removed from Gnome, even if there are non-Gnome alternatives. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
