[1661] in SIPB bug reports
re: xscreensaver bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (me)
Thu Feb 7 17:56:29 1991
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: ericldab@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 91 17:56:05 EST
From: me <ericldab@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Actually, I should refine that bug report a little....you *can*
successfully specify the float.bitmap, but xscreensaver doesn't bother to
check if you have it specified before it goes off and tries to specify
/usr/sipb/bitmaps.x11/SigmaPiBeta as the bitmap file. Thus, if you don't
have sipb attached but you have your own float.bitmap specified, it will
report an error anyway. After reporting the error, it will do the right
thing and load the user-specified bitmap, but it is really an annoyance.
I can't just pipe stderr to /dev/null in this case, because I'd like to
know if the port that xscreensaver needs is already in use.
- Eric
