[4034] in testers
Re: xss oddities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed May 19 11:30:25 1999
Message-Id: <199905191530.PAA936708@antharia.mit.edu>
To: Heather Anne <aurora@MIT.EDU>, Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 May 1999 17:51:12 EDT."
<199905182151.RAA07221@bobbi-harlow.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:30:13 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Heather said:
> 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.
And then seph said:
> everything after gears on the demo list (inclusive) doesn't exist.
>
> when it runs something that doesn't exist, it displays the current
> directory and the path. On the sun's it displays this to the screen
> (this is bad) on the sgi's it spews this to the tty that started xss.
When I run the demo, all of the listed screensavers are installed. I
suspect you're having problems because you have preference files that
were written while we were still testing things, and if you rm them,
it will get better.
-- Dan
