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Hi, I'm currently moving all our local school's desktop clients from Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7 + Xfce. Right now I'm fine-tuning the default user profile. I have a problem with XScreenSaver. The application per se works very well. Only there's a hard-coded pop-up window that reminds the user that he's not running the latest version. So, if I'm running version 5.36 as

...Any thoughts about this? It appears that the spec file actually patches xscreensaver to change the time bomb date to be the build time, so you?d only need to rebuild it to make it stop. (The EPEL maintainer could too) https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xscreensaver/blob/epel7/f/xscreensaver.spec#_440 JWZ would prefer people not patch out the time bomb (and stop calling the time bomb a time bomb, too bad). He?d rather people not use xscreensaver at all. He probably is annoyed about getting bug reports from users of distros that have an out of date version, but I have to say his solution is pret...