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#1 2011-02-13 15:25:54
- Dieter@be
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simple xscreensaver config with just 1 specific screensaver enabled?
Hi,
I think xscreensaver is pretty much what I need. it does screen locking, screensaving and I like the xscreensaver-command program, especially with -watch, to combine it with my scripts.
However, I don't want it to randomly pick one out of its gazillion screensavers, just one very simple one should be enough.
unfortutanely, when I run xscreensaver-demo to create a config file, it makes a config file that's pretty unbearable to edit manually.
so does anyone have a config to run it with 1 specific screensaver? a config that humans can enjoy looking at?
or alternatively: a more simple screensaver program that does everything I want?
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#3 2011-02-13 15:45:07
- Dieter@be
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Re: simple xscreensaver config with just 1 specific screensaver enabled?
xscreensaver-demo gives you this option. Look at the top of the list.
? like i said, look at the config file it generates, it's unbearable. And all my approaches to manually clean it up resulted in a broken config.
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#4 2011-02-13 16:03:50
- Leonid.I
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Re: simple xscreensaver config with just 1 specific screensaver enabled?
I know what you mean. The "bogus" lines in the config file all start from "GL:", right? I think that the only way around it, is to recompile XS withoud gl/glx support (that's what I used to do, but I am only using a "blank screen" screensaver), which will disable all opengl screensavers, but save ~50% in size.
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#5 2011-02-13 16:20:02
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#6 2011-02-13 17:46:44
- Dieter@be
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Re: simple xscreensaver config with just 1 specific screensaver enabled?
I know what you mean. The "bogus" lines in the config file all start from "GL:", right? I think that the only way around it, is to recompile XS withoud gl/glx support (that's what I used to do, but I am only using a "blank screen" screensaver), which will disable all opengl screensavers, but save ~50% in size.
not all, but yeah. many.
anytime you save the config from xscreensaver-demo, you end up with a "program" section like:
programs: \
maze -root \n\
GL: superquadrics -root \n\
attraction -root \n\
blitspin -root \n\
greynetic -root \n\
helix -root \n\
hopalong -root \n\
imsmap -root \n\
- noseguy -root \n\
- pyro -root \n\
qix -root \n\
- rocks -root \n\
rorschach -root \n\
decayscreen -root \n\
flame -root \n\
halo -root \n\
slidescreen -root \n\
pedal -root \n\
bouboule -root \n\
- braid -root \n\
coral -root \n\
deco -root \n\
drift -root \n\
- fadeplot -root \n\
galaxy -root \n\
goop -root \n\
grav -root \n\
ifs -root \n\
GL: jigsaw -root \n\
julia -root \n\
- kaleidescope -root \n\
GL: moebius -root \n\
(...)
cwaves -root \n\
GL: gears -root \n\
GL: glcells -root \n\
GL: lockward -root \n\
m6502 -root \n\
GL: moebiusgears -root \n\
GL: voronoi -root \n\
GL: hypnowheel -root \n\
GL: klein -root \n\
- lcdscrub -root \n\
GL: photopile -root \n\
GL: skytentacles -root \n\
GL: rubikblocks -root \n\
electricsheep --root 1 \n\When I try to strip it down, to something like:
programs: \
maze -root \n\it will just randomly pick one out of the whole bunch again 
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