gnome screensavers - can I get more?
Martin Waller
I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome (5
basic ones).
1) Are more available?
2) From where?
3) How do install them?
Thanks,
Martin
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Ron Johnson
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On 10/27/07 06:49, Martin Waller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome (5
> basic ones).
> 1) Are more available?
> 2) From where?
> 3) How do install them?
Before we can answer that, you must tell us how many screen saver
packages do you already have installed.
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Martin Waller
> -----BEGIN PG6:49, Martin Waller wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome (5
>> basic ones).
>> 1) Are more available?
>> 2) From where?
>> 3) How do install them?
>>
>
> Before we can answer that, you must tell us how many screen saver
> packages do you already have installed.
>
>
package gnome-screensaver 2.14.3-3 (etch).
In gnome, 'desktop | Preferences | screensaver shows screeensavers
'Cosmos', 'Floationg Debian', Floating Feet', Pictures Folder', 'Pop
artsquares'.
I hope that's sufficient information.
Thanks for your time,
Martin
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
> Hello,
>
> I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome (5
> basic ones).
> 1) Are more available?
> 2) From where?
> 3) How do install them?
Hi Martin, there's rss-glx and the hacks of xscreensaver but you need to
installe the full package of xscreensaver (including the application!),
right now I'm working in a package that makes this easier for
gnome-screensaver including the hacks of xscreensaver as well ;-).
Regards,
Jose Luis.
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Martin Waller
> Martin Waller wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome (5
>> basic ones).
>> 1) Are more available?
>> 2) From where?
>> 3) How do install them?
>>
>
> Hi Martin, there's rss-glx and the hacks of xscreensaver but you need to
> installe the full package of xscreensaver (including the application!),
> right now I'm working in a package that makes this easier for
> gnome-screensaver including the hacks of xscreensaver as well ;-).
>
> Regards,
> Jose Luis.
>
Hi Jose,
OK - I installed those and tried to run xscreensaver, but go tthe
following error:
martin@papilio:~$ xscreensaver &
[2] 10481
[1] Exit 127 xscrennsaver
martin@papilio:~$ Error: Cairo does not yet support the requested image
format:
Depth: 16
Alpha mask: 0x00000000
Red mask: 0x0000003f
Green mask: 0x000007c0
Blue mask: 0x0000f800
Please file an enhacement request (quoting the above) at:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=cairo
xscreensaver-demo:
/home/dajobe/dev/debian/cairo/cairo-1.2.4/src/cairo-image-surface.c:155:
_cairo_format_from_pixman_format: Assertion `NOT_REACHED' failed.
xscreensaver: 18:15:59: 0: child pid 0485 (xscreensaver-demo) terminated
with signal 6.
X error in juggler3d:
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes)
Resource id in failed request: 0x3600093
Serial number of failed request: 16
Current serial number in output stream: 17
errrr...
But thanks for the suggestion - just seems to have created a new problem :)
Martin Waller
aah - I only get this error through a vnc connection (running
vnc4server, etch package version 4.1.1+X4.3) - at the actual box it
seems to work OK...?
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
>
> But thanks for the suggestion - just seems to have created a new problem :)
Not really, there's a bug already registered about this issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/413690
With 24bits depth works perfectly ;-).
Ralph Katz
> Martin Waller wrote:
>> Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
>>> Martin Waller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome (5
>>>> basic ones).
>>>> 1) Are more available?
>>>> 2) From where?
>>>> 3) How do install them?
>>>>
>>>
xscreensaver works just fine on my wife's etch gnome desktop. It 'just
works.' gnome-screensaver is not installed. Let me know if some part
of .xscreensaver or something else would be helpful to you.
Regards,
Ralph
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
>
> aah - I only get this error through a vnc connection (running
> vnc4server, etch package version 4.1.1+X4.3) - at the actual box it
> seems to work OK...?
Then the vnc is running under 16bits depth, that's why ;-).
Martin Waller
>
>
>> aah - I only get this error through a vnc connection (running
>> vnc4server, etch package version 4.1.1+X4.3) - at the actual box it
>> seems to work OK...?
>>
>
> Then the vnc is running under 16bits depth, that's why ;-).
>
>
>
Ah yes - that was it. I installed xscreensaver, which then comes
available in gnome, and had to change the xvnc startup in inetd.conf to
use -depth 24 from the default 16 (didn't set the depth previously).
Thanks - I was actually after the 'poltyopes' screensaver I've seen on
other machines - it was in xscreensaver.
Happy now - thanks for your help
Martin Waller
> On 10/27/07 10:39, Martin Waller wrote:
>
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome (5
>>>> basic ones).
>>>> 1) Are more available?
>>>> 2) From where?
>>>> 3) How do install them?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Before we can answer that, you must tell us how many screen saver
>>> packages do you already have installed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> package gnome-screensaver 2.14.3-3 (etch).
>>
>> In gnome, 'desktop | Preferences | screensaver shows screeensavers
>> 'Cosmos', 'Floationg Debian', Floating Feet', Pictures Folder', 'Pop
>> artsquares'.
>>
>> I hope that's sufficient information.
>>
>
> to install:
>
> $ apt-cache search screensaver|sort
>
>
Ok - I actually used '/ screeensaver' in aptitude and installed
xscreensaver which has the particular one I'm after in. After some
tweaks to my Xvnc server sratup as per the other branch of this thread,
all is sorted.
Thankyou for your valuable input.
Martin
Mark Grieveson
debian-user-d...@lists.debian.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome
> (5 basic ones).
>
> 1) Are more available?
> 2) From where?
> 3) How do install them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
I don't think so. I tried installing other screensavers, IE,
the package electricsheep, and it did not appear in the list of
available screensavers in gnome-screensaver. I checked the net, to see
if art.gnome.org provided any, but, no, it did not.
xscreensaver provides more; so, you could switch. When I used
xscreensaver, I found that its presence interfered with my playing
fullscreen sdl games such as defendguin, or Quake; so, I gave up on
xscreensaver. It was a while ago that I used xscreensaver. So, this
may not be an issue any more. If not, and if xscreensaver is now
bug-free, one wonders why gnome-screensaver is even being built at
all. Of course, are screensavers even necessary? But I digress.
There is a site that describes how to get xscreensaver's screensavers to
work on gnome-screensaver. It's at
http://philcrissman.com/2006/07/25/howto-add-your-xscreensavers-to-gnome-screensaver/
I've not tried KDE's kscreensaver, but it, apparently, already has a
package that allows for standard xscreensavers to be used (that being,
kscreensaver-xsavers). Why there isn't a similar package for
gnome-screensaver is a mystery. Perhaps, in line with gnome's human
interface guidelines, they feel that too much choice will confuse us
users. Therefore, only a few choices, like planets, ugly floating
feet, and pathetic "pop-tart-squares", are provided.
Best of luck,
Mark
Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson <dg...@torfree.net> wrote:
> I don't think so. I tried installing other screensavers, IE,
> the package electricsheep, and it did not appear in the list of
> available screensavers in gnome-screensaver.
Alas, I think I responded too quickly. From another user, who
suggested the rss-glx package, I did get additional screensavers in
gnome-screensaver.
Chris Bannister
> martin@papilio:~$ xscreensaver &
> [2] 10481
> [1] Exit 127 xscrennsaver
> format:
> Depth: 16
> Alpha mask: 0x00000000
> Red mask: 0x0000003f
> Green mask: 0x000007c0
> Blue mask: 0x0000f800
> Please file an enhacement request (quoting the above) at:
Hi Martin,
Were the errors, underlined above, the actual on screen errors as
printed? If so then it is sloppy coding and a bug should be filed.
If not, but caused by mistyping on your part, then could you please in
future either:
1) cut 'n' paste errors into your email client.
or
2) use the script program or redirection and then "read" the program
into your email program.
If you are using mutt + vim, then from within vim while you are
composing your mail:
* move the cursor to where you want to type the errors produced
* press <esc> to get in command mode
* type :r filename
where filename is the file either from using script or from using
redirection.
Mistakes in transcribing error messages can only lead two confusions.
:-)
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Martin Waller
admit I hadn't even noticed the missing 'n' in 'enhancement'. I think
'sloppy coding' is a bit strong for a simple typo like that tho, don't
you? At least it reported an intelligible error. The problem is now
fixed however (follow rest of thread).
Martin