Re: totally awesome gnome-settings-daemon patch!

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 22 Mar 2002, Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> 
> > +  /* just spawn xscreensaver.  it's special. */
> > +  system ("xscreensaver -nosplash &");
> > +
> 
> Can we use g_spawn or the like here?  If we're going to require
> xscreensaver (which is probably smart) I'd like to get a real dialog if
> it doesn't exist, instead of just an "xscreensaver: command not found."
> in my .xsession-errors.  Also, do we ever not want to start
> xscreensaver?  Should we add a key for this, or is that too much crack?
> 

On the contrary, not having an option "disable screensaver" that causes
the system not even try to launch it sounds "on crack". Not all
configuration erquire, need or even want a screensaver, even if the
average desktop isn't one of those.

>
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
> 

	Sander

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