has anyone come across the screen saver that has all kinds of pictures. A mexican resturaunt table, an advertising for the same resturaunt (I assume) and then at the bottom some guy doing a girl doggie style. I came into my office and saw this. Should this really be on a default screen saver? I mean i dont mind but shit that is crazy.

Jeff

It's the WebCollage screensaver. It grabs random pics from the Internet. I think it is off by default on most systems.

Does webcollage grab random pics from the internet or does it compile images from the sites that the user visits? Either way, he should be reported - it doesn't sound like the sort of thing you should put on a work pc.

Trust me on this one, it is NOT any sites I visited! I was more than a little upset when I walked into my computer room with a visitor and the random screen saver had selected webcollage in all it's pornographic glory.
The xscreensavers on any system of mine has been in the area of /user/share and can be futher pinpointed with the command: locate screensaver
Once I have found webcollage and a few others, I delete them. For example:

Remove undesirable screensavers in Fedora 3:
cd /usr/share/control-center/screensavers
rm -f webcollage.xml xflame.xml demon.xml
cd /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers
rm -f webcollage.desktop xflame.desktop demon.desktop

I did notice that webcollage is not enabled by default in FC5 beta.

It's definitely not a compilation of site users visit, but it may be less random than we think. For example, there seems to be a lot less porn on there in the morning than in the evening, making me think that maybe it looks at overall internet traffic. Actually, I can't say I've ever seen pics on there from any site that I've visited.

the screensaver can use a program (Driftnet) that grabs images from traffic travelling across your network, otherwise it uses some random image searches from search engines I believe

I hope you mean that in a broad sense - like the other people in my apt building!

From the website: http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/
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This is what the Internet looks like.

WebCollage is a program that creates collages out of random images found on the Web. More images are being added to the collage about once a minute, so this page will reload itself periodically. Clicking on one of the images in the collage will take you to the page on which it was found.

It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned.

There are currently two versions of this web page: one that searches the entire web, and one that searches LiveJournal only.

WebCollage also works as a screen saver, for those of you using Unix: it is included with the XScreenSaver package, and here.

The WebCollage screensaver can also be used in conjunction with DriftNet (the Unix version of EtherPEG) to snoop images from traffic on your local subnet: your screen saver can display a collage of the images your coworkers are looking at!

If you enjoy this, you might also enjoy DadaDodo.
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Frankly, this seems very innapropiate in a distro with a general purpose audiance. And you should alert your managers as this could be the cause of lawsuits and other troubles. Sex discrimination and that sort of thing. probably your co-worker is unaware of the porno pics.

I just stumbled into this screensaver. It was on by default in PCLinux2007. I use the random screensaver and it took over a year for this to appear---complete with some pretty raunchy porno.

I thought it was worth a quick "heads-up" especially for households with young children.

Old thread, but still, thought I'd point out this more recent thread over on Slackware: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nsaver-640382/