I tried this and encountered a problem:
it requires a package (xcb-atom) that doesn't
seem to be available for FC8 or FC11
(at least, yum didn't know about it).

Does anyone know how to fix this?

- David

On 18-Jul-2010 4:39 AM, Bernd Machenschalk wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The original author of this code is Nils C. Brause. I didn't receive
> much instructions with it, apart from what's at top of the
> screensaver_x11.cpp file.
>
> Attached is the patch to BOINC SVN that I got. It will put the code in
> clientscr/ and should add the machinery to compile it. The modification
> to configure.ac just tests for Xcb if to build the manager and fail if
> the library is not there. I'd rather exclude the screensaver from
> compilation if the library can't be found, issue a warning and make
> configure succeed. This would make it easier for other Unix-like
> platforms to compile the manager.
>
> According to Nils this has been successfully tested with xcreensaver and
> App graphics of einst...@home and climateprediction.net.
>
> Both KDE and gnome have their own screensavers by now, but they claim to
> accept xscreensaver 'hacks'. So it should be possible to configure them
> to use this screensaver, I just don't know how.
>
> Best,
> Bernd
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