[Kde-kiosk] Removing screensavers

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Fri October 24 2003 09:04 pm, Stephen Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I'm new to the list, so please be gentle if this is the wrong
> venue for my question.  In an academic environment, I'm trying to
> customize RedHat Linux 9 for our computer labs.  Most of the effort has
> gone well, but now I need to remove a few of the screensavers (for
> various reasons) and have gotten a bit confused about which files I need
> to remove to make one disappear cleanly:  It looks like some of the
> executables are in /usr/bin/, some in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/, and
> descriptions in both /usr/share/control-center/screensavers/ and
> /usr/share/apps/kscreensaver/ScreenSavers/
>
> 	Any pointers would be appreciated.

RedHat makes modifications to the standard KDE directories so I don't know  
for sure which directories are what on RedHat, but I think your description 
is accurate.

There are KDE specific screensavers and more generic "xscreensavers".

Then there are .desktop files that describe the screensavers and there are the 
screensaver executables themselves.

On RedHat /usr/bin contains the executables of the KDE screensavers and their 
descriptions are probably in /usr/share/control-center/screensavers/

The executables of the xscreensavers live in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/
and I guess that they have their descriptions in 
/usr/share/apps/kscreensaver/ScreenSavers/

By removing the description files they will no longer be selectable from the 
screensave configuration. A very detemined user might still be able to use 
them though. If you really want to sure that they don't get used, you should 
remove the executable as well.

Cheers,
Waldo
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