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Auteur: Boruch Baum
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À: dng
Sujet: Re: [DNG] xscreensaver issues (including hardcoded DEBIAN!)
SORRY ADAM!

I didn't read your link till after I hit send! Everything is in your
link. Thanks for providing it.

On 04/01/2016 02:31 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:58:23PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
>> Just looking at issues with the devuan default desktop's screensave, and
>> its config file: ~/.xscreensaver file, posted here for the attention of
>> the maintainers and the interest of members of the list.
>>
>> 1] Obnoxious nag messages - All logins to the devuan default desktop
>> begin with not one but two separate nag messages from xscreensaver. The
>> first "warns" the user that the version is out of date. The second
>> "warns" the user that the sysadmin is doing a dis-service by keeping it
>> out of date.
>>
>> 2] forced config screen - after the two obnoxious nag messages, one is
>> forced to be confronted with the xscreensaver customization screen
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703
>
> It's a time bomb by xscreensaver's upstream author. And like micq before,
> it looks like xscreensaver needs to be replaced or forked. Obviously, using
> gnome-screensaver is not an option as that pulls in a good part of Gnome3
> including systemd.
>



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