From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 09:06:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB23716A421 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 09:06:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a@jenisch.at) Received: from srvdmz13.oekb.co.at (srvdmz13.oekb.co.at [143.245.5.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D0943D4C for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 09:06:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a@jenisch.at) X-SEF-Processed: 5_0_0_816__2006_05_04_11_06_20 X-SEF-EB89CDFD-460A-478E-BCAC-B017B9EC121B: 1 Received: from Unknown [143.245.2.187] by srvdmz13.oekb.co.at - SurfControl E-mail Filter (5.0); Do, 04 Mai 2006 11:06:20 +0200 Received: from aurora.oekb.co.at ([143.245.9.16]) by MAIL1.oekb.co.at with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2499); Thu, 4 May 2006 11:06:20 +0200 Received: from aurora.oekb.co.at (localhost.oekb.co.at [127.0.0.1]) by aurora.oekb.co.at (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4496Kkk082172 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 11:06:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from a@jenisch.at) Received: (from ej@localhost) by aurora.oekb.co.at (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k4496K9S082171 for gnome@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 May 2006 11:06:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from a@jenisch.at) X-Authentication-Warning: aurora.oekb.co.at: ej set sender to a@jenisch.at using -f Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:06:20 +0200 From: Ewald Jenisch To: gnome@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060504090620.GA81878@aurora.oekb.co.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 May 2006 09:06:20.0657 (UTC) FILETIME=[0283CE10:01C66F5A] Cc: Subject: xscreensaver - advanced settings for savers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 09:06:22 -0000 Hi, After going through the upgrade from Gnome 2.12 to 2.14 I found that I can't tune the settings for the screensavers any more. In the previous gnome-release (2.12) when going to the properties of the active screensaver one could e.g. change the character size of the xmatrix saver. In gnome 2.14 when starting gnome-screensaver-preferences you can select which screensaver to use but can't change any specific settings for the saver in question. So here are my questions: o) How can I select specific settings for the screensaver selected with the gnome-screensaver-preferences o) Is there a user-editable config-file that stores the settings (I thought about hand-editing this file) Please note, that the settings are not stored in ~/.xscreensaver. I've renamed this file (which dates back to somewhere in 2005) and it doesn't get re-written upon start/stop of gnome. Here's what I've installed (i.e. screensaver-related): xscreensaver-gnome-hacks-4.24_1 gnome-screensaver-2.14.1 Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald