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Re: Athena Linux 9.3.9 xscreensaver fault

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Aug 6 21:13:30 2004

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From: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:13:23 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Owing to xscreensaver's stupid logic of creating a detailed config file 
for every individual who does any configuration, there's this legacy 
problem of people like me, who have old config files from the old 
version, who get the argument wrong across their change.

Alas, there is no good solution to this problem.

-wdc

On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:25 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> Wander isn't part of the (very small) set of default enabled screen
> hacks.  It's still potentially a bug, but not one that should affect a
> large number of users.


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