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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] New goodies in KDE3.1
From:       Ben Rosenberg <ben () whack ! org>
Date:       2003-02-03 7:28:57
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* Rich Buckner (rbuckner@gte.net) [030202 22:58]:
->On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:16 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
->> * Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [030202 12:01]:
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->> ->No one mentioned the new NICE screen savers. 'Guess no one thought to
->> mention ->them or like me, they hadn't discovered them yet. :) NICE work!
->>
->> Yes, the hook into XScreensaver is damn nice, but is only present in
->> 8.1. Those of us who still have machines running at are SOL for now.
->> Apparently 8.0 doesn't have the correct libs to do this and no one is
->> going to make pkgs to update it so that it can. :/
->>
->> I really like some of the GL screensavers that KDE 3.1 can use now..they
->> are SO much nicer then those silly Windows ripoffs. ;)
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->You can still use xscreensaver while running KDE even without KDE 3.1 or Suse 
->8.1.  Xscreensaver comes with Suse 8.0.  Just disable the KDE screensaver, 
->run "xscreensaver-demo" (w/out quotation marks) to set up xscreensaver the 
->way you want it, and then edit your .xinitrc file to add "xscreensaver &" (no 
->quotes) to the area it designates for adding your own commands..  

Yeah. I knew this. What I was talking about was the fact that KDE 3.1
has a module that lets you use the xscreensaver's and control them
within the KControl panel. This is missing from the 8.0 pkgs and I
haven't had a good explanation as to why or at least why the libs that
are need to do this can't be included in a pkg for 8.0.

I'm still running 8.0 at home because 8.1 disagreed with the bios
revision of my Asus MB at the time it came out. I know all the fixes to
make it work now. I just don't have time to upgrade then tweak the box
again.

Thanks though.
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