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You can customize themes using X resources. You can select a theme using xscreensaver-settings or by changing the dialogTheme option ( dialogTheme: themename in ~/.xscreensaver or using X resources: xscreensaver-auth.dialogTheme: themename). Starting from version 6.0, XScreenSaver comes with several pre-installed themes. Since at least XScreenSaver 5.22, there is another way to edit XScreenSaver's user configuration, using X resources. Global options are defined in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver.
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#Ubuntu xscreensaver manual#
xscreensaver-settings writes the chosen configuration to ~/.xscreensaver, discarding any manual modifications to the file. Most options are configured on a user-by-user basis by running xscreensaver-settings.
#Ubuntu xscreensaver install#
3.2 User switching from the lock screenįor an Arch Linux branded experience, install the xscreensaver-arch-logo AUR package.
#Ubuntu xscreensaver update#
If I can find a different way to regenerate the cache file, I’ll be sure to update here. I assume that running without the cache file will probably cause a bit of fetching when using GNOME apps, so it’s probably a good idea to make sure the info from your .desktop files ends up in your cache file. Not only that, if you edit the .desktop files, you can check your changes without having the reload the screensaver applet - just click another one in the list, then back to your new one to check the settings. I moved this out to the desktop and fired up the screensaver applet. This file seems to be full of any config file that uses the .desktop nomenclature - all the GNOME desktop related stuff - like screensavers. I did some digging, and found the desktop.en_US.utf8.cache file under /usr/share/applications On X11 systems, This program is also a fully-functional VT100 emulator! Written by Jamie Zawinski.īut no matter what I did - including rebooting the machine and running dpkg-reconfigure did any good. Here it is in it’s original form:Įxec =/usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -root -scale 2 -font ‘Droid Sans’Ĭomment =Draws a simulation of an old terminal, with large pixels and long-sustain phosphor. The default is some Ubuntu feed, which is boring and lame. I copied the Phosphor saver, since I like it and it can be pointed to a web server or any other source of text. So the easiest thing to do is either to edit this directly, or copy the original and start working on the copy. From what I can tell, you’ll find a lot of .desktop files in the /usr/share/applications/screensavers folder.Įach of these .desktop files is a ‘hack,’ or ‘screensaver theme.’ This is where each screensaver is configured - namely, each configuration of a screensaver is stored. Then I read up on editing these files by hand. $> sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra For whatever reason, the GNOME developers, in their ‘infinite’ wisdom, decided to can xscreensaver in favor of gnome-screensaver - and they left out any way to configure a particular screensaver (for instance, choosing a folder besides your ~/Pictures folder for a slideshow).Īfter combing the web for a while, I found that gnome-screensaver supports most of the xscreensaver packages, so I installed these:
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I was trying to configure a particular screensaver in Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. This may not be the best way to do this, but it’s the way I found.