screensaver plugin issues

[Don Christensen]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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

I was afraid of that.  I might be better off dumping the provided
packages and building myself.  I'd get 4.4.1 that way, at least.

Thanks,
-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems             Austin, TX
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