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Lockheed

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Registered: 2010-03-16

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xscreensaver - different lock screen?

Frankly, I am not a fan of xscreensaver's lock screen in Arch.
http://www.bstegmaier.de/wiki/images/Xscreensaver.png(just an approximation)

Is there any way to make it look the way it looks in ubuntu?

http://www.addictivetips.com/wp-content … creen1.png

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Guff

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Registered: 2009-09-30

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Re: xscreensaver - different lock screen?

Well, there's xscreensaver-arch-logo in the AUR, which looks a little prettier. But not by much.

Isn't the second screenshot of gnome-screensaver, not xscreensaver?

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Lockheed

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Registered: 2010-03-16

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Re: xscreensaver - different lock screen?

I am actually using -arch-logo. Not much of a difference.

I am not sure what the second screen is. I just typed ubuntu xscreensaver in google pics.

Guff

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Re: xscreensaver - different lock screen?

Well, yeah, that's definitely gnome-screensaver, not xscreensaver.

xscreensaver doesn't use a toolkit like GTK or Qt, so it can look out of place. The most you can do is try to emulate that look by going into your .Xdefaults or .Xresources and doing the stuff mentioned here.

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