It seems to be in the xcb-util-devel package. Can't check for sure
since I don't use Fedora.

-- 
Nicolas

On 19/07/2010, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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