Got it working. What's I missed before was that the executable in electricsheep.desktop has to be in /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome- screensaver/. When drawing on the root window you don't need XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
cat /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver/esheep.sh #!/bin/sh electricsheep --root 1 --max-megabytes 3000 --zoom 1 --display-anim 1 --show-errors 0 --nrepeats 2 --frame-rate 30 cat /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/electricsheep.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=ElectricSheep Comment=Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms. This module requires a high-bandwidth, always-on connection to the internet such as DSL or cable-modem. The first time you run it, it normally takes 5 to 10 minutes before the first sheep is downloaded and displayed. After that, it should come up immediately. If you have installed the hacked xscreensaver that supports passing key-presses onto the graphics hack and this feature is enabled, then pressing the up arrow-key transmits a vote for the currently displayed sheep to the server. The votes are the basis of a fitness function for an evolutionary algorithm on the sheep genomes. Vote for the sheep you like, and they will mate, reproduce, and evolve! See http://electricsheep.org for more information. This is version 2.6.4. TryExec=esheep.sh Exec="esheep.sh" StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Screensaver -- Recent changes seem to have broken electricsheep https://launchpad.net/bugs/5823 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
