[174] in Athena User Interface
Re: xscreensaver errors from panel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Thu Jun 15 13:20:33 2000
Message-Id: <200006151720.NAA09097@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:59:51 EDT."
<200006151659.MAA17884@whack-a-mole.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:20:29 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 6/15 you wrote:
>
> danw wrote:
> > since xscreensaver itself loses if you try to rename it to something
> > else (we had to hack the source), it doesn't make a lot of sense for
> > GNOME to include the ability to rename it...
>
> So I take it that the binaries were named for some very good reason,
> and that the right thing is to modify the panel source?
I think that the right thing to do is to make xscreensaver on athena
be jwz's xscreensaver and take SIPB's xscreensaver out back and shoot
it.
However, I bet that is not going to happen. Thus I think that the
right solution (assuming it is not very hard) is to add a configure
option to specify the name of xscreensaver. If they won't take the
patch upstream, eit.
If it is really hard to hack in, then I will just
s/xscreensaver/xss/g.
tibbetts
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