really slick screensavers installed but not configured

I have a suggestion - I like certain default screen savers and hate others. I
think some of the ones not enabled are excellent. There is definitely a science
flavour to the current package. There is some good alternatives to the current
setup but who are you going to listen to, me I might be the only one that likes
'X' screensaver?

Create a screen saver popularity contest package that monitors what screen
savers are selected for use, give this as an option to install and we can then
collect the screen savers that people that really use. We can promote this
through the Linux user groups and planets.

Another nice idea might be a series of packages or configuration downloads, like
themes, that set up screen savers to cerain tastes. Not sure how this would
work, just exploring options.

The current selection of screensavers was chosen by the SABDFL :-)

...and as far as I can see, most of the ones I picked are *still* not enabled by
default.

The RSS-GLX package does something funky. The user has to run some command to
add those screensavers to their preferences. Of course, we don't want that to
happen. I think we need to restructure the screensaver package as follows:

 - one package with all the screensavers we have selected, enabled by default
 - another package with all of the rest, as extra screensavers

I'd really like to see this bug fixed - took several hours working through the
full list of screensavers to pick the best ones :-)

xscreensaver (4.16-1ubuntu4) hoary; urgency=low

  * Enable RSS screensavers. (Ubuntu: #3042)

 -- Thom May <email address hidden> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:39:28 +0000

Fixes this bug, splitting the packages is bug 9742

please excuse my lack of knowledge about screensaver-configs, so please tell me what informations else you need.

But in the current version of xubuntu 10.4 (today I got a bunch of update-packages) comparable appears:

no rss-glx screensavers are in the selection-list, neither in xscreensaver, nor in gnome-screensaver.

I'm seeing no rss-glx screensavers in my list either. I'm on Mythbuntu 10.04.

ahoy,

if you guys are running xscreensaver you need to add the rss-glx screensavers to your .xscreensaver file. In your home directory in the .xscreensaver file the rss-glx screensavers need to go in the list.

If you havent already install xscreensaver and rss-glx_install

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra rss-glx xscreensaver-screensaver-webcollage

Then there is a script you have to run to manually add the rss-glx screensavers into the ~/.xscreensaver file. First kill the xscreensaver process if it is already running

killall xscreensaver

Then run the rss-glx install script. I dont think you have to be root because .xscreensaver is in your home directory. You should already have permissions there.

/usr/bin/rss-glx_install

Now open xscreensaver and the new screensavers should be installed and checked. Restart the daemon and you should be all set

xscreensaver-demo

I realize this is 10 years old but I am sure many aer still having this problem :)