Bug#309441: xscreensaver: Better handling of failing hacks

[Johan Walles]

In my case it's because I intend to fix my GL setup, but not today.  I 
view its un-fixed state as an exception.

As I liked my GL screen savers I don't want to uninstall them, just to 
install them again once I do something about getting GLX working again. 
 It would be much better for me if XScreensaver could just ignore them 
until I get GLX working again.

The opposite way of phrasing the same question is "why should 
XScreensaver willingly launch hacks that can be easily verified not to 
work"?

 Cheers //Johan
-----Original Message-----
From: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Johan Walles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:05:22 +0200
Subject: Re: Bug#309441: xscreensaver: Better handling of failing hacks
Le mardi 17 mai 2005 à 05:32 -0700, Johan Walles a écrit :
Here's an example of how to detect X server extensions:
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/programs/xdpyinfo/xdpyinfo.c?rev=1.9&view=markup
Look at the print_extension_info() function.  Walking through the
extensions list looking for "GLX" should do the trick.
Why is this necessary? If your GL setup is broken, just purge
xscreensaver-gl, and that's all.
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