Hi,

There's an issue I'd report re the noseguy screensaver. In it's text window, noseguy is starting to list porn movie titles, along with graphic text descriptions and movie lengths.

I remember a similar issue being reported a few months back with the web collage screensaver, so I thought I'd better report this.


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Btw, I have no such library on my computer.

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Or anywhere else.

I've been testing it for a short time, all I get is hostname, kernel, uptime, and load average. But, since it involves porn, I shall check it out at length later.

I typed up what's below, but probably solved the problem: the default setting of URL in xscreensaver of "http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml" seems to be the source of potentially offensive text. The solution is probably to run xscreensaver-demo, go to the advanced tab, and change the "text manipulation" setting to something like a blank filename, or "Host Name and Time" (or just use a different URL).

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Can you invoke
directly and still see the problem text?
noseguy's default behavior is to call
which ought to output hostname-, uname-, date-, and w- type information. The command "xscreensaver-text", with no options, appears to have identical output to the above command on slackwares 12.2 and 13.
Are you using KDE4 or KDE3.5 or something else entirely?
From what I see of the KDEs' screen saver configurations, they don't seem to have ways of tweaking individual xscreensaver settings.
Are you running xscreensaver ? (pgrep xscreensaver to see)
In KDE 3.5, running "xscreensaver" directly and choosing "settings" without a running xscreensaver daemon will pop up a dialog box to complain about KDE's existing screen saver daemon.
Also, do you have an ~/.xscreensaver file ? xscreensaver-demo will write this file when it is run for the first time. xscreensaver-demo also has what appear to be master text source options (in your case, mastur-text ) for xscreensaver binaries.
If you do have this file, try grepping it for "noseguy" to see if it shows more options than just -root. The manpage for noseguy show it has several options regarding where it gets its text, the trick here seems to be isolating what is causing the problem.

I'm running SW 12.2 with all patches applied (slackpkg upgrade patches) with kernel upgraded to 2.6.31.

Screensaver is configured through KDesktop > Screensaver.
I selected noseguy.

Thanks.

I'm running SW 12.2 full default install with all patches applied (slackpkg upgrade patches) and the 2.6.31 kernel. I'm also using vesa with ATI Radeon Xpress 200.

I ran "/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/noseguy" and took a screenshot and could post it or send it if you want. (I don't think I should post it here. At least R-rated if not X-rated.)

Noseguy was selected through Configure-KDesktop>Screensaver.
It's the default KDE3.5.

Thanks, I'll run xscreensaver.

But, I thought it might be important for folks to know that this is happening. This text could be a problem in some environments... It might get someone fired.

For me, changing the URL setting in the "~/.xscreensaver" config. file changes noseguy's text output, upon direct invocation, with no further command line arguments. I agree, that livejournal URL being a default is a bad idea.

yep... It was set to livejournal when I started xscreensaver. I removed the link entirely and am now using fortune.

Thanks again!