lisa screensaver and lan browsing lisa

[Stephan Kulow]

On Sunday 20 April 2003 13:57, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Saturday 19 April 2003 00:28, Chris Howells wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.

No need to worry. xscreensaver's lisa isn't in $PATH, the KDE code just needs
to make sure to call xscreensaver hacks a bit more carefully.

Greetings, Stephan