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9.3 -> 9.2 screensaver options

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken T Takusagawa)
Fri Jun 4 04:50:21 2004

Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 04:50:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
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After adjusting my screensaver settings (in Gnome Control
Panel) on a 9.3 linux machine, I logged on to a 9.2 Solaris
machine and got a spew of errors in the console window:

04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:20: unknown option "quad"
04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:24: unknown option "memoryLimit"
04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:30: unknown option "ignoreUninstalledPrograms"
04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:36: unknown option "grabDesktopImages"
04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:37: unknown option "grabVideoFrames"
04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:38: unknown option "chooseRandomImages"
04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:39: unknown option "imageDirectory"
04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:41: unknown option "mode"
04:43 xss: /mit/kenta/.xscreensaver:42: unknown option "selected"

I don't know yet these errors indicate that my 9.2
screensaver is now broken, but I will report back if it is.

--ken

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