Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:48:22 -0500 From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Two gnome-screensaver questions Message-ID: <20070301044822.GA16912@panix.com>
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1. I have two older systems (FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.1, both running Gnome 2.16), with a fully up-to-date set of Gnome ports, on which gnome-screensaver doesn't launch. I can go to the Properties screen and select a bunch of themes, all of which work in the Properties screen or in Preview, but don't actually work in the wild--it won't activate the screensaver or lock the screen after the designated time, and choosing "lock" or "activate screensaver" has no effect. I can't figure out the command-line version of this tool to see if there's an error message there, and the Help documents didn't suggest anything. Any ideas for how to analyze this? 2. On a new install (Gnome 2.16 on FreeBSD 6.2), there seem to be a number of themes that don't work, which not only display a black screen, but prevent another theme from starting (if "Random" is selected). (If I move the mouse at all, even without logging in from a lock (i.e. just moving the mouse and not entering a password when requested), it will move to a new theme that might work.) This happened with the other installs too, and I dealt with it by going through and testing every one, deleting the ones that failed, but this was really tedious. Is there another way to handle this? Should the non-rotating black screen be regarded as a bug (i.e. even if it's proper for a failed theme to be failed for whatever the "random" period is (and for that matter, should this be (or is it) customizable?), shouldn't it progress to another theme thereafter)? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower
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