Replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:12 -0500, Tim Welch wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 12:25 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 18:44:06 +0200
> >> From: "Lars Stokholm" <lars.stokholm at gmail.com>
> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> >>
> >>
> >> On 18/05/06, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The gnome-power-manager only exist in MC, because I think it required
> >>> HAL=
> >>>
> >> .
> >>
> >>
> >> MC? HAL? Anyway... If that simply means it's of reach for me, my
> >> original question still stands: During the install of the gnome2-lite
> >> port, I was asked if I would like to replace gnome-screensaver with
> >> xscreensaver (I think it sounded like that). I didn't, but I'd like to
> >> now. How is it done?
> >
> > As I read it, you need to:
> > pkg_delete -f gnome-screensaver-2.14.1_1 pkg_delete -f
> > xscreensaver-gnome-hacks-4.24_1 portinstall xscreensaver-gnome pkgdb -Ff
> >
> > The last may not be required, but you probably do need to correct
> > some dependencies from gnome-screensaver to xscreensaver-gnome. In any
> > case, it won't hurt anything. --
> > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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> 
> Kevin's suggestion will work, with one caveat. Ports such as vlc which
> disable the screensaver still try to run gnome-screensaver-command instead
> of xscreensaver-command to disable it. Rebuilding those ports should fix
> it, or since they seem to be syntax compatible a symlink will do the
> trick. (Yes, I know, don't do that, but it beats playing the guessing game
> at which ports will use gnome-screensaver-command)
> 
> Could we possibly go back to xscreensaver as default until power
> management features are fully supported?  I for one was highly annoyed to
> find that my LCD stayed on all day after upgrading gnome. It's usually set
> to power off the backlight as soon as xscreensaver activates.

This should be taken care of in GNOME 2.16 with the inclusion of
gnome-power-manager.  In any event, gnome-screensaver is the default for
the official GNOME Desktop, and we are following suit.

Joe

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