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 _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
