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Am I missing something here, or is the gnome-screensaver-preferences program MISSING from the gnome-screensaver package? Without this file, gnome-screensaver is useless. I want to use gnome-screensaver for the user switching ability alongside GDM but I am unable to configure it since the configuration utility is MIA. Unless there is an easy way to do the same thing with xscreensaver, of course, rendering gnome-screensaver unnecessary altogether.
See current arch package here: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … reensaver/
Btw, I'm running the xfce desktop environment and gdm-old.
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for gnome-screensaver 3.0 any support for configuration was dropped. gnome uses gnome-screensaver only for the lock feature screen and that's it.
i expect that for 3.2 or 3.4 the screensaver support to move to gnome-shell making gnome-screensaver obsolete
Last edited by wonder (2011-05-29 08:45:23)
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Wonder is likely correct; these are tumultuous times for GNOME fans. If KDE fans thought they had it bad during the transition to version 4, in many ways I think the jump to GNOME 3 and gnome-shell has been even more severe. With KDE, many of missing features were at least expected to be reinstated in subsequent versions; for GNOME 3, many of the features, as we know them, will simply disappear.
Last edited by thayer (2011-05-29 17:17:20)
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Ah. It would seem that Ubuntu (where I confirmed that the package is supposed to contain that particular file) ships with version 2.3 instead of 3. I suppose it's the same reason gdm-old exists. Is there any way to install the gnome 2 version of gnome-screensaver from the arch repository?
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So how is someone suppose to change screensaver settings? An example would be nice.
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