xscreensaver shows annoying info with electricsheep

llawwehttam · 2010-02-15 16:46:32

When I use xscreensaver with electric sheep every now and then some info comes up on the screen on top of the screensaver. Its a bit annoying and I would like to be rid of it.

Picture of the issue:

Last edited by llawwehttam (2010-02-15 16:48:29)

llawwehttam · 2010-02-17 21:10:13

I have looked in xscreensaver-demo but no luck and I cannot seem to find much information on xscreensaver.
Any ideas?

robrene · 2010-02-17 21:35:42

$ electricsheep-preferences

llawwehttam · 2010-02-17 22:18:07

robrene wrote:

$ electricsheep-preferences

Yes but what am I supposed to change.
In the code appearing on top of the screensaver it mostly starts with xscreensaver suggesting that its an xscreensaver setting I should be changing.

I am a bit of a noob to xscreensaver, I usually use gnome-screensaver but this computer is my lightweight machine.

Last edited by llawwehttam (2010-02-17 22:22:47)

robrene · 2010-02-18 00:43:57

The text in your screenshot has nothing that comes from xscreensaver as far as I can see, just some messages about electricsheep. Does it show those messages when you run electricsheep directly from terminal (using electricsheep-saver)? Also, in the preferences window, does ticking "Hide errors" fix your problem?

llawwehttam · 2010-02-18 11:36:36

I tried 'hide errors' and it did nothing.
When I run it in terminal I get some of the messages but I also get some when I run xscreensaver, for instance incorrect password attempts are added to the list of junk on the screen.

Hairshorts · 2011-10-11 23:27:11

It looks like it's stderr from electricsheep that is being printed. Run xscreensaver-demo, go to electricsheep, settings, advanced, and change the command line to this:

electricsheep --root 1 2> /dev/null

Or edit ~/.xscreensaver and change it in there.

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#1 2010-02-15 16:46:32

xscreensaver shows annoying info with electricsheep

#2 2010-02-17 21:10:13

Re: xscreensaver shows annoying info with electricsheep

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#4 2010-02-17 22:18:07

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#5 2010-02-18 00:43:57

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#6 2010-02-18 11:36:36

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