> The configuration dialog only shows screenhacks that are either hardcoded > inside the xscreensaver binary, or manually entered into ~/.xscreensaver. > This means there is no easy way to make packages that provide additional > screenhacks.
No, that's what the /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver file is for. (Exact directory may vary. Consult your doctor.) > Currently there's the rss-glx package which has to use an awful hack > to make the screensavers work: rss_glx-install, a script that has to be > run by *every* user on the system manually. Not user friendly at all! That does, indeed, sound like a very dumb way to do it. The maintainers of that package should do something less dumb. > It shouldn't just read the xml files at runtime, but also the contents > of the directory, so that additional screenhack packages can just dump > their xml file into /usr/share/xscreensaver/config and just work. The XML directory is used only by the "xscreensaver-demo" program, the GUI. The app-defaults file is used by both "xscreensaver" and "xscreensaver-demo". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
