On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 11:36 +0530, பத்மநாதன் wrote:
> Dear LUGs,
> In ubuntu 9.04, screen saver displays titles as screen
> saver (hostname and kernel release details) and unable to alter it in GUI
> mode of screen saver setting. Is any trick to alter it?
>
Hi, Padmanadhan,
This is the oldest complaint against the GNOME desktop (the inability to
configure obvious settings of a screensaver). Anyway, I'll assume you're
talking about GLText.
Reading GLText's man pages will let you know that you can make it
display any text you want:
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/gltext -text "Cats are cute."
or display the output of a program that is run every 5 seconds by saying
stuff like:
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/gltext -program "iwconfig wlan0 | grep link -i"
Now, you probably want this to run automatically, so what you'll have to
do is edit the file at
"/usr/share/applications/screensavers/gltext.desktop". In that file, you
should see an entry like the following:
Exec=gltext -root
You will probably want to change it to something like the following:
Exec=gltext -root -text "Kittens like spinning text."
They really should have a graphical interface for this sort of thing.
--
Regards,
Roshan George <[email protected]>
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