On Feb 7, 2008 3:03 PM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I decided to move parts of my home directory to a partition where it
> would be easy to keep things that I would like to have common to
> multiple distributions. I mount that partition as /share. On that
> partition I have /share/home/myUser/Pictures (among other directories
> like Music and such). I deleted the empty directory ~/Pictures and
> created a link ~/Pictures pointing to /share/home/myUser/Pictures. I
> don't have any problem, until I finally discovered one. Everything
> works as expected (like when I click on the Gnome menu bar Places =>
> Pictures) except the screensaver.
>
> I had the screensaver set to show fotos from ~/Pictures, and it *used
> to* work. But now it doesn't. It's been a while since I had the
> screensaver turned on, so other things I have done may be to blame, but
> my suspicion is what I described above.
>
> Could anyone point me in the right direction? TIA
>
> Preferably, I shouldn't have to settle for a link *inside* the actual
> ~/Pictures directory pointing to the other place (which *did* work).
> Everything else seems to be happy with replacing the ~/Pictures
> directory with a link to the other place. Why not the screensaver?
What happens if you go to screensaver setup and browse for the
directory it uses for pictures? Maybe you have to delete the old
information and replace it. Even it if gets replaced with a directory
name that looks exactly the same to the naked eye.
carl
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