FC5: replacing gnome-screensaver w/ xscreensaver?

[psychobyte]

Hi,

According to this page. ..

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/en/rnusers.html

you can replace gnome-screensaver w/ xscreensaver. I haven't seen any place that shows how. Does anyone know where I can find out how to do this?

Thanks,

[Jman]

I suppose just remove gnome-screensaver and install xscreensaver-base or something.

[Eric Buist]

Unfortunately, this will not work. The only way to do this would be to disable the screensaver in the GNOME preferences and to have xscreensaver start AFTER the GNOME desktop is started. However, since there is no way to have a program start after GNOME is loaded, there is no way to replace Gnome-ScreenSaver with XScreenSaver and still keep using GNOME. This is a really bad thing, because Gnome-ScreenSaver, in practice, requires its special type of screen savers. Some Web site pretend that it supports XScreenSaver hacks, but the .desktop files for XScreenSaver hacks always disappear, and Gnome-ScreenSaver reverts back to using only its own limited set of hacks. The only solution is to disable Gnome-ScreenSaver and to have no screen saver at all. This is a bad regression of FC5, the second one being the great difficulty of installing the NVIDIA graphic driver.

[Seehund]

I simply "yum remove"d the retarded abomination known as gnome-screensaver and then "yum install xscreensaver-base xscreensaver-extras xscreensaver-gl-extras". Worked for me.

[Eric Buist]

I did the same thing and it just worked. The devil was Gnome-ScreenSaver and GNOME seems to use XScreenSaver as a plug-in replacement if Gnome-ScreenSaver is absent. I am surprised by such a degree of "intelligence" from software. I thought I had to manually start the XScreenSaver daemon as I did in the past with KDE.

[eliashickman]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=195557

This website (although for Ubuntu) worked for me and I am forever indebted.