[CentOS] XScreenSaver

Valeri Galtsev
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:25:55 -0000

On Sun, April 8, 2018 6:54 am, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> 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.

This is a big change, so it must be prompted by substantial reason. Would
you mind share it: what about slackware was that bad to prompt it.

Thanks a lot for your insights!

Valeri

>
> 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
> provided by the EPEL repo and not the latest and greatest 5.38 as
> provided upstream, I get a pestering pop-up window informing me that
> YOUR VERSION OF XSCREENSAVER IS VERY OLD. This functionality is
> apparently hard-coded, since there's no way to deactivating it.
>
> The Slackware distribution seems to have solved the problem by promising
> upstream to keep things up-to-date.
>
> For the moment I simply work without it, because I'm annoyed by my
users
> phoning me and asking me what's this thing with their screensaver being
> too old.
>
> As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem.
>
> 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date.
>
> 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get the annoying popup.
>
> 3. Maintain my own up-to-date version of XScreenSaver in my private repo.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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