Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > >> Hi >> >> i have found this useful for xscreensaver under gnome-screensaver: >> http://philcrissman.com/2006/07/25/howto-add-your-xscreensavers-to-gn >> ome-screensaver/ >> > > Hi, > > I also don't particularly like gnome-screensaver and followed the > instructions in the link above but ran into a problem trying to find > just where gnome-screensaver keeps it's themes so I can run the script. > > Does anybody know where they are in F8? Which directory? > > The other question of course is whether gnome-screensaver can be dumped > altogether (rpm -e gnome-screensaver) and only keep xscreensaver. > > Any ideas? > > I am replying to myself and perhaps helping someone else at the same > time. > > The answer to the sparseness of gnome-screensaver is pretty simple as it > turns out if you are on F8. > > Go to > http://www.andreas-mueller.com/mrepo/f8-i386/RPMS.updates/repoview/xscreensaver.html > and download xscreensaver-extras-gss-5.04-1.fc8.i386.rpm > > This package adds all the nice xscreensaver screens to > gnome-screensaver. OK. the eproblem is that I use Gentoo and this RPM package does not help me. What to do ? _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
