[177] in Athena User Interface
Re: xscreensaver errors from panel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Thu Jun 15 14:04:58 2000
Message-Id: <200006151804.OAA09580@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "15 Jun 2000 13:42:42 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:04:45 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
In standard geek fashion, the easy fix took less time than the
discussion. xcreensaver appeared in the source to panel and
control-center (the screensaver capplet) about a dozen times. As
anyone who is subbed to aui-diffs has noticed, I just changed any
reference to program names to be xss (and in the case of two
references to "/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver" changed it to
"/usr/athena/libexec/screensaver").
tibbetts
On 6/15 you wrote:
> "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.
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