using gnome-screensaver in settings manager

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:37:23AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

Crap, nothing like answering your own first-post...

> 
> So this is great, but I'd love to be able to use
> gnome-screensaver-preferences through the settings manager. How would
> I do that? 
> 
> I've checked out /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins which is full of .so files
> that are binaries. hmm... not much help there.
> 
> I've looked at the source (use the source luke...). I've found
> /xfce-mcs/plugins/branches/xfce_4_2/plugins/screensaver_plugin/screensaver_plugin.c
> and it looks pretty straightforward. maybe as simple as changing
> #define SCREENSAVER_EXE "xscreensaver-demo" 
> 

hmmm... how about

ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-preferences
/usr/bin/xscreensaver-demo

killall -s USR1 xfce-mcs-manager

watch the screen get all funky for a bit and there it is. 

sorry for the noise

A
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