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alex.forencich

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Registered: 2011-05-29

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gnome-screensaver-preferences MIA

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.

wonder

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Re: gnome-screensaver-preferences MIA

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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thayer

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Re: gnome-screensaver-preferences MIA

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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alex.forencich

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Registered: 2011-05-29

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Re: gnome-screensaver-preferences MIA

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?

abiheiri

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Registered: 2011-08-25

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Re: gnome-screensaver-preferences MIA

So how is someone suppose to change screensaver settings? An example would be nice.