[4018] in testers
xss oddities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heather Anne)
Tue May 18 17:51:29 1999
Message-Id: <199905182151.RAA07221@bobbi-harlow.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 17:51:12 -0400
From: Heather Anne <aurora@MIT.EDU>
xss still has the screen savers that show what is on your screen (it
makes it into puzzles and all kinds of things). This is poor.
Also, I can't get the perferences to pop up correctly when I type xss
and hit the prefs button on the popup window. The button that says
prefs depresses properly and then the window goes away and nothing
else happens no matter how long I wait.
If I run xss-button I can get to the preferences using the menu option
prefreences that takes me to the demo and then I can choose
preferences. This is confusing, but better than nothing as in the
case above.
I can still get xss and xscreensaver running at once which can result
in much fun and entertainment as the two try to grab the focus from
each other.
When I am in the demo mode and click on some of the options to see
what the screensaver looks like I get a long messy error message about
not being able to execute the file. Then it annouces what directory
I'm in and my path. I'd guess these are the screensavers we're not
using for whatever reason and they just want to not be on the list or
give a less scary error message to avoid this problem.
I'm on a SPARC 4 (Bobbi-Harlow) running 8.3.
Heather Anne
