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In the Slack9 distro, and a few others actually, there is a screen saver packaged that is called Star Wars.
It's nothing fancy but scrolling text like the intro to the starwars movies... blah blah anyway...
Is there a way to edit what is being scrolled? When I cilck the settings button it says there is no setup for this screen saver.
Just curios if there is a file somewhere I can edit or so...
I think its coded to pull a text from the kernel directory (or more likely the /usr/doc directory). If you can't change its behavior the nice way (through config files) do it the hard way... rewrite its code.
Yeah that's what I thot, but I can't seem to find anything related to it.
Any ideas? i did a google but couldn't find anything even remotely related to this. Most of the results were bs microsloth wintendo saverz.
I even tried to find the actual saver and its source but that was a no go as well.
ok... no need to hack code. if you execute xscreensaver-demo and scroll down to starwars and click the settings button. You should see a text entry field labeled "Text Program"... type something in here to dump text to the screen saver...
example:
cat /usr/src/linux/README
or if you wanted to have a random selection of text files you could setup a bash or perl script.
kewl. that worked... only does the X srvr use this version? or the version thats installed via KDE3?
In the control center the star wars saver doesn't allow for setting changes and says:
sh: line1: /usr/games/fortune: No such file or directory
If I use the xscreensaver-demo and restart the daemon via the menu, will this screen saver now take over what is set in KDE or do I need to disable the KDE saver....
xscreensaver is a daemon that runs independant of KDE... I don't know what KDE uses for a screensaver (there are at least two in existance xlock and xscreensaver). However if KDE does not use xscreensaver I suppose one option to fix this would either be to disable KDE's screensaver and in your ~/.xinitrc file put a line as follows
xscreensaver &
just some thoughts... and as for my time... don't worry about it. usually I'm at work and bored to tears when I'm on this blog.
and as for my time... don't worry about it. usually I'm at work and bored to tears when I'm on this blog.
too funny. I know the feeling... well sometimes.
I appreciate the help.
Found out:
Once i use xscreensaver-demo settings and restart the daemon, it uses that particular screensaver since the daemon is running. I just disabled the KDE saver and it appears to be working fine.
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