lisa screensaver and lan browsing lisa

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 19 April 2003 00:28, Chris Howells wrote:
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> Hi,
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> One of the screensavers provided by xscreensaver (which we support) has an
> executable called "lisa". "lisa" also exists as a program in KDE.
>
> This has the unfortunate effect of meaning that whenever an attempt is made
> to run the lisa screensaver, we in fact try to run lisa the LAN browsing
> thingy.
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> I've talked to a few people on IRC about this, but I'm still not too clear
> what to do about it. Absolute paths or ensuring that the xscreensaver
> directory is looked at first seems to be about the only solutions.
>
> Any ideas?

Oh, I didn't know that.
It's not a good thing if two application with the same name exist.
Maybe something should be symlinked when installing, like xss-lisa -> lisa or 
something.

Bye
Alex
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