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[Burkhard Lück]

Hi Mark,

please use the mailing list for conversation, so other documentation people 
can step in.

Thanks.

Am Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2013, 11:44:52 schrieben Sie:
> Hi,
> 
> You're welcome; it was my pleasure; I get a kick out of XScreenSaver
> screen savers.
> 
> Thank you for improving upon my proposed addition by generalizing it.
> 
> I'm not sure that your proposed addition will do the job. My point was
> that end users could not (and would not) populate (if that's the right
> term) KDE Screen Saver with the XScreenSaver screen savers by merely
> (only) installing the kscreensavers-xsavers packages and the desired
> xscreensaver packages--the end users HAD to also add the XScreenSaver
> package (xscreensaver) itself (without ever running XScreenSaver). To
> put it into plain English, you ain't gonna get a lot of the great
> XScreenSaver screen savers into KDE Screen Saver unless you install
> "xscreensaver". This procedure evidently worked for me--it's entirely
> possible that this procedure is not universal (though I suspect that
> it is).
> 
> 
> Mark Feldman
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013, 01:50:34 schrieb Mark:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> The Screen Saver (KScreenSaver) Help page should tell end users how to
> >> get Screen Saver (KScreenSaver) to import XScreenSaver screensavers.
> >> 
> >> Here is a rough draft of my proposed addition:
> >> 
> >> "If you want to add XScreenSaver screensavers to Screen Saver
> >> (KScreenSaver), install "kscreensaver" and any of the XScreenSaver
> >> screensaver packages that have the XScreenSaver screensavers that you
> >> want (xscreensaver-gl, xscreensaver-gl-extra,
> >> xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod, and/or rss-glx). Install
> >> "kscreensaver-xsavers" to allow KScreenSaver to use the XScreenSaver
> >> screensavers. Install "kscreensaver-xsavers-extra" to allow
> >> KScreenSaver to use the "extra" XScreenSaver screensavers. Make sure
> >> to also install "xscreensaver" (but don't ever run "xscreensaver";
> >> i.e., don't ever launch the XScreenSaver daemon)."
> >> 
> >> Note to KDE: I don't know whether adding "xscreensaver" will do the
> >> trick for every personal computer--adding "xscreensaver" did the trick
> >> for my PC--allowed/caused KScreenSaver to import all the XScreenSaver
> >> screensavers. I'd incorrectly thought that adding only "kscreensaver",
> >> "kscreensaver-xsavers", "kscreensaver-xsavers-extra" and all the
> >> XScreenSaver screensaver packages that I wanted would add all these
> >> XScreenSaver screensavers to KScreenSaver. Adding "xscreensaver" did
> >> the trick!! Now KScreenSaver was LOADED with great screensavers! I've
> >> noticed that a number of end users (such as myself) don't know how to
> >> get KScreenSaver to import the XScreenSaver screensavers.
> > 
> > Thanks for your proposal.
> > 
> > You are right, the info, that also xscreenservers can be controlled via
> > this module is missing.
> > 
> > But we should keep this a bit more generic, keeping in min that there are
> > many different distributions, package systems, package splitting and
> > names.
> > 
> > My proposal:
> > 
> > It is additionally possible to use and configure non KDE screen savers
> > like
> > xscreensaver. Please install the kscreensaver-xsavers packages provided by
> > your distribution and the necessary xscreensaver packages.
> > 
> > --
> > Burkhard Lück
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Burkhard Lück