[19556] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.0.13: gnome/xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue Aug 7 15:08:21 2001
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:08:18 -0400
Message-Id: <200108071908.PAA10238@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Ben <blout@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu, rbasch@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[19518] in Athena Bugs"
> I had previously edited my .xscreensaver to have, as its only
> screensaver, xmatrix. This was lost to me. (I had edited the programs
> section so xmatrix was the only entry.) I also had a commented out line
> in the programs section (which I occasionally uncommented) something I
> had done to float a message around the screen. That too is gone.
Hi. Unfortunately, this is a "feature" of the way xss-demo maintains
the contents of the preferences file. Since it has no notion of what
is user-specified, as opposed to a system default, it considers any
system entries not found in the file as new, and merges them in. (If
you want to deselect any of the saver programs, without the bother of
unmarking it in xss-demo, you can put a '-' in the first column of
its programs section entry -- xss-demo should preserve that). Also,
comments are not preserved in the file, but you should be able to
use xss-demo (or the '-' edit) to enable/disable your special entry.
Bob
