[176] in Athena User Interface
Re: xscreensaver errors from panel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Thu Jun 15 13:42:45 2000
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 15 Jun 2000 13:42:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:54:36 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hbt12vo19.fsf@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> So I traced the xscreensaver errors that the Gnome User gets on login
> to the fact that the commands "xscreensaver" "xscreensaver-command"
> and "xscreensaver-button" are hard-coded into the panel. On Athena,
> these are called xss-*. It seems to me it would be better to make
> symlinks from xscreensaver to xss than to change the source. But,
> then again, if these names are different to avoid confusion between
> Athenized and non-Athenized versions, it would be better to change the
> source.
We changed the name to xss in order to avoid collision with
xscreensaver in the sipb locker. Eventually the latter will go away
and xss will have both names xss and xscreensaver on Athena, but not
yet.
> Either wouldn't take very long. What's the Right Thing to do?
Change the name to xss in the source.
> Of course, the optimal thing would be for these command calls to be
> settable by a config file instead of being hard-coded. I don't know
> how critical the specific behavior of xscreensaver is to the panel.
Well, yeah, that's the best thing. Changing the name in the source is
second best.
