Looking for a screen-saver with a working clock

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:07:07PM -0800, Bob Snyder wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> >> Thanks, Bob. I would prefer an analog clock, but the one indicated by
> >> you is fine to me.
> >>     
> >
> > I have just come across a screen-shot of the screen-saver that I wanted to mean:
> >
> > http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/pane.jpg
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Yes, I agree this is a very nice looking clock. Since it's part of KDE, 
> it's included in my Slackware system (you likely have it too). So I 
> tried it by running kcontrol and running the test mode - works great. I 
> guess it's not compatible with xscreensaver, the default screensaver of 
> Xfce. Perhaps a KDE expert can explain if this is usable somehow under 
> Xfce without running KDE.

fwiw, I have been using gnome-screensaver because I like the
locking/switchuser aspects of it. To make gnome-screensaver behave
like it was xscreensaver for purposes of xfce, I just symlinked
xscreensaver and xscreensaver-demo to the gnome-screensaver
equivalents. Seems to do the trick with no obvious issues I can see.

andrew at debian:~$ ls -l /usr/bin | grep screen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root     113916 2006-11-24 12:44 gnome-screensaver
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root       9020 2006-11-24 12:44
gnome-screensaver-command
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root      44716 2006-11-24 12:44
gnome-screensaver-preferences
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root       6920 2006-09-05 09:26 screendump
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root         26 2006-11-17 21:05 xscreensaver ->
/usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root         38 2006-11-09 10:38 xscreensaver-demo
-> /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-preferences


hth,

A
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