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graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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additional gnome screensavers - like Ubuntu?

I recently saw an Ubuntu 9.04 box at a friend's house.  I noticed that gnome screensaver has quite a few more screensavers on that box.  My Arch box only came with 6 or 7 by comparison.  I poked around in the repo but only found xscreensaver; same is true for the AUR.  Is there a larger set that I missed or..?

Is it possible to tar-up a directory from an Ubuntu 9.04 install and untar them on my Arch box or is it more complicated than that?

Last edited by graysky (2009-05-29 23:26:09)

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: additional gnome screensavers - like Ubuntu?

Check out gnome-look.org
http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xco … a8ca8d21b6

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Nepherte

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2008-09-09

Posts: 427

Re: additional gnome screensavers - like Ubuntu?

If you install xscreensaver, you can use all their screensavers in gnome-screensaver as well.

graysky

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Re: additional gnome screensavers - like Ubuntu?

If you install xscreensaver, you can use all their screensavers in gnome-screensaver as well.

This did it!  Now the only question I have is how to access an individual screensaver's preferences through gnome-screensaver?  When running xscreensaver, there is a button that allows the user to select various options for the screensaver.  I can't find an equilivant for gnome-screensaver.

For example, how can I setup a path to photos for photopile and other screensavers that read them?

Last edited by graysky (2009-05-30 13:23:38)

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briest

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From: Katowice, PL

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 468

Re: additional gnome screensavers - like Ubuntu?

AFAIK, you have to write .desktop file with all you desired options; at least I have not found better way. Too bad... Here is an example -- my (successful) attempt to run xplanet via gnome-screensaver:

$ cat /usr/share/applications/screensavers/xplanet.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XPlanet
Comment=xplanet jako screensaver
TryExec=xplanet
Exec=xplanet -vroot -label -latitude 50 -longitude 19 -body moon -origin earth -north orbit -radius 30 -range 10 -wait 30
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Screensaver