On 04/02/2016 12:34 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> writes:
>> 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 first "warns" the user that the version is out of date.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 out of date.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
>
> Oh wow. It's incredible to which degree people go out of their way just
> to be obnoxious. Below is a patch removing every trace of this
> nonsense.
Thanks.

The discussion on the debian bug tracker has a number of proposals, and
is still going on, if anyone wants to chime in there.

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