Re: Problem with Control Center 1.0.5 screensaver setup

["Aaron C. Redalen" <redaa ils unc edu>]

I hit this problem, too.  For some reason, control-center looks for the
screen hacks in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver (or something very similar to
that.  Check your /.gnome/Screensaver file; it'll probably have some paths
very similar to this in it.  You should be able to just drop in a symlink
from /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver (or whatever path control-panel is
looking in) to the directory where you installed your screensaver hacks.

This problem pissed me (a big ol' GNOME newbie) off for a while before I
got around it.  Can any of you GNOME wizards out there explain why 
control-panel looks in that path?  Is this a configurable behavior?

Aaron C. Redalen  
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

On 3 Apr 1999, Martin Soto wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Since I installed the 1.0.5 tarball, Control Center is not showing
> any screensavers in the selection list on the Screensaver capplet.
> All I get is the "No Screensaver" and the "Random Screensaver"
> entries.  The desktop files for the screensavers are all in place
> (/usr/local/gnome/share/control-center/.data/ in my setup) and
> xscreensaver is properly installed (I can even run the hacks by hand
> from the command line).
> 
> I've been looking at the code, but was unable to find any possible
> cause for the problem.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> M. S.
> ------------
> Martin A. Soto J.                           Profesor
> Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
> Universidad de los Andes      masoto@uniandes.edu.co
> 
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