I took the time to sit down and work through this on relatively clean installs of Ubuntu 6.10 and Debian Etch.
Currently the Edgy electricsheep package puts .desktop files in the following locations /usr/share/control-center/Desktop/ /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers/ /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/ The Etch package puts them in /usr/share/control-center/Desktop/ /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers/ In Edgy and Etch after installing gnome and kde's screensavers and electricsheep I found screensaver related .desktop files in the following locations: /usr/share/applications/screensavers/ - holds many screensaver desktop entries in Edgy, doesn't exist in Etch /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers/ - holds entries for kscreensaver in Edgy and Etch /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/ - empty in Ubuntu except for electrichseep, used in Etch for gnome screensavers (ie not xscreensaver hacks) /usr/share/control-center/Desktop/ - empty in Ubuntu and Etch except for electricsheep /usr/share/app-install/desktop/ - many desktop files for applications and screensavers in Edgy, doesn't exist in Etch I'm ignoring the KDE-related ones. To find out where gnome-screensaver looks, I removed all the .desktop files electricsheep installed but one and moved that file through each directory. Each time I moved it I restarted gnome-screensaver and checked to see if electricsheep appeared in the list of screensavers. /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/ - Edgy no, Etch yes /usr/share/applications/screensavers/ - Edgy yes, Etch no /usr/share/control-center/Desktop/ - Edgy no, Etch no /usr/share/app-install/desktop/ - Edgy no, Etch no Next I looked for where the actual screensaver executables were located /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver/ - holds gnome screenavers in Edgy and Etch /usr/lib/xscreensaver/ - holds xscreensaver hacks in Edgy, doesn't exist in Etch /usr/bin/ - holds electricsheep I modified electricsheep.desktop to refer to a wrapper script that simply called electricsheep with a few options, and moved the wrapper script through the above folders to see which locations gnome- screensaver checked when launching a screensaver. /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver/ - Edgy yes, Etch yes /usr/lib/xscreensaver/ - Edgy yes, Etch yes /usr/bin - Edgy no, Etch no -- 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
