screensaver plugin issues

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue May 1 19:26:20 CEST 2007


On Tue, 01 May 2007 11:50:13 -0500 Don Christensen wrote:

>I just set up a new machine with Ubuntu Feisty and grabbed the
>Xfce packages with synaptic.  I'm currently having an issue with
>the screensaver.  When I try to get to the screensaver config
>via the settings menu, I get the following error:
>
>     Xfce Settings Manager error:
>     No such plugin "screensaver"
>
>The settings manager of course does not offer a screensaver
>setting option.  I'm hoping I'm just missing a package, and
>someone here can provide a quick pointer (apologies if I missed
>a previous discussion on this).

Sounds like a packaging problem.  The packager didn't compile the
screensaver plugin, but still included its .desktop file.

	-brian




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