Comments on: How To Edit Your Screensaver Settings In Ubuntu Intrepid

By: chrisl

chrisl — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:05:56 +0000

or you could just edit the .desktop file where the settings are saved

in the directory /usr/share/applications/screensavers/ there are all the settings of every screensaver, you just have to edit that file (as root)
Do a “man screensaver-name” to find the options you can change

for example, I want to use the bsod screensaver, and by default it includes the apple2 one (which I don’t like) and it has disabled the atari st one (which I do like)

so, the default line says:
Exec=bsod -root

so I changed it to this:
Exec=bsod -root -atari -no-apple2

and thats it!

By: chrisl

chrisl — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:05:00 +0000

or you could just edit the .desktop file where the settings are saved

for example, I want to use the bsod screensaver, and by default it includes the apple2 one (which I don’t like) and it has disabled the atari st one (which I do like)

so, the default line says:
Exec=bsod -root

so I changed it to this:
Exec=bsod -root -atari -no-apple2

and thats it!

By: Mike Henry

Mike Henry — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:38:46 +0000

Hello i deleted it by accedient under system prefences is there a way to unstaill and re install?

Thanks
Mike H

By: Mike Henry

Mike Henry — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Hello i deleted it by accedient under system prefences is there a way to unstaill and re install?

Thanks
Mike H

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:03:56 +0000

I tried it, and it does not work in Intrepid.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:03:00 +0000

I tried it, and it does not work in Intrepid.

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:39:44 +0000

Same deal for me – I make all kinds of settings changes and they don’t port over to the gnome screensaver.

- Kris

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:39:00 +0000

Same deal for me – I make all kinds of settings changes and they don’t port over to the gnome screensaver.

- Kris

By: DCR

DCR — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:08:44 +0000

Well, it doesn’t work for me. I can change the setting with xscreensaver and the gnome-screensaver doesn’t care heck about it and still shows the default setting.

By: DCR

DCR — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:08:00 +0000

Well, it doesn’t work for me. I can change the setting with xscreensaver and the gnome-screensaver doesn’t care heck about it and still shows the default setting.

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