[16949] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.7: xss-button
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Tue Jul 6 17:18:52 1999
Message-Id: <199907062118.RAA06126@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:18:43 -0400
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
System name: contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.3.7 (with mkserv)
Display type: unknown
Shell: /afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh
Window manager: /mit/windowmanagers/sun4bin/vtwm.gamma -f /mit/nocturne/dotfiles/vtwmrc
What were you trying to do?
Use X resources to change the way xss-button invokes 'xss'.
What's wrong:
I read the manpage:
> xss (class Command)
> Specifies the screen saver driver to run. Same as
> the -xss option.
What should have happened:
The manpage should have said that the resource string for specifying the
screen-saver driver was "xscreensaver" instead of "xss". (This is what a
reading of the source code revealed.)
Also, it would be really nice if the button-pixmap were
user-configurable. (In the manner of the SIPB xscreensaver.)
And, finally, once the bugs are worked out of this program, I seriously hope
that you submit it for inclusion in the master distribution of jwz's
xscreensaver package.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
