Old school fireplace\screen image location\replacement?

jamison20000e · 11-19-2013, 04:04 PM

Debian-7.x.x, Xfce4: I've seen the image used over the years and have used both software environments as well so it may be a Debian and\or Xfce thing not sure, dose anyone know were to find it maybe even a history lesson?

Thanks.

TobiSGD · 11-19-2013, 04:19 PM

This is the logo of the Xscreensaver project. You can find different versions of it in the folder utils/images in their source package.

jamison20000e · 11-19-2013, 04:57 PM

Thanks. I just found a test image for printing in a CUPS folder and started thinking could be a screen test from it's look... too many files not enough time.

frankbell · 11-19-2013, 08:52 PM

That's the image xscreensaver displays when it's configured to display an image (say, in the slideshow screensaver) and can't find an image to display in the target directory or when an image it expects to find has gone missing.

I don't know whether it's a separate image or coded into the binary. I nosed about a bit with the locate command but didn't find it.

jamison20000e · 11-19-2013, 09:21 PM

Yes, I spoke too soon (had to get to work) although the thanks stands TobiSGD it got me searching smarter i.e:

Code:

find / -name images

and such and I did see the screensaver executables but not that image, what I really want to do is change the images so I see am going about it wrong.

Thanks guys.

So, I will try configuring my savers and I wonder if the slideshow images will go in the login image after screen lock? I will be back.

Edit\add: found this so far:

Quote:

distort (6x)
XScreenSaver manual ...
The image that it manipulates will be grabbed from the portion of the
screen underlying the window, or from the system's video input, or from
a random file on disk, as indicated by the grabDesktopImages, grabVide-
oFrames, and chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver file;
see xscreensaver-demo(1) for more details.

also same imige in Ripples and Slide Screen the advanced tab in screen saver settings lets me change the image.

jamison20000e · 11-19-2013, 09:45 PM

Changing the screensaver was no problem, should have realized that but it dose not affect the log in image.

jamison20000e · 11-20-2013, 08:45 PM

More digging: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#toolkits
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...reensaver.html
I will put up with not changing the image for security, definitely not willing to try:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver
sudo apt-get install gnome-screensaver

for the same or less look... I will keep it unsolved

as if it's a big deal.

aus9 · 11-20-2013, 10:03 PM

see if any of these hits interest you

http://www.tineye.com/search/show_al....unixmen.com/1

jamison20000e · 11-21-2013, 09:03 AM

Hadn't thought of reverse image search giving an exact name

/usr/share/pixmaps/xscreensaver.xpm and .svg
http://askubuntu.com/questions/85109...-unlock-screen

Thanks.

Edit\add: All after reboots: editing both did nothing, reinstalled XScreenSaver wipes edits, reinstalled XScreenSaver-data nothing; I wish there was just a command like update-xscreensaver... just found this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/85109...-unlock-screen so I guess I've got work to do.