Is it possible to get an Ubuntu 8.04 thin client to play a slideshow
as a screensaver?
I've got the gnome-screensaver installed, and it is running:
# ps -ef | grep gnome-screensaver
root 735 30062 0 08:23 pts/1 00:00:00 grep gnome-screensaver
opac104 4665 1 0 Sep21 ? 00:00:15 gnome-screensaver
But I can't get it to use the slideshow module. The screen simply blanks.
I have tried modifying the ~./.gconf/apps/gnome-screensaver/%gconf.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="idle_delay" mtime="1253269668" type="int" value="1">
</entry>
<entry name="themes" mtime="1253269652" type="list" ltype="string">
<li type="string">
<stringvalue>screensavers-personal-slideshow</stringvalue>
</li>
</entry>
<entry name="mode" mtime="1253269652" type="string">
<stringvalue>single</stringvalue>
</entry>
<entry name="power_management_delay" mtime="1253269576"
type="int" value="30">
</entry>
</gconf>
And, following the directions of previous posts I dug up I used the
following commands:
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type bool --set
/apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled true
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type bool --set
/apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled false
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set
/apps/gnome-screensaver/mode screensavers-personal-slideshow
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type int--set
/apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_delay 10
These seem to have modified this file:
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory/%gconf-tree.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<dir name="apps">
<dir name="gnome-screensaver">
<entry name="idle_delay" mtime="1253268706"
type="int" value="10">
</entry>
<entry name="mode" mtime="1253537872" type="string">
<stringvalue>screensavers-personal-slideshow</stringvalue>
</entry>
<entry name="lock_enabled" mtime="1253537589"
type="bool" value="false">
</entry>
<entry name="idle_activation_enabled"
mtime="1253279307" type="bool" value="true">
</entry>
</dir>
</dir>
</gconf>
I have JPEG images in ~/Pictures/.
And I am logged in as the correct user. That is, the logged-in user
matches the directory with the gconf settings and images directory.
Does the screensaver log its complaints somewhere?
I have also tried replacing gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver, but
gave up on that when the X server started complaining about not having
a display defined and I was unable to get that right.
Do I have to persevere with xscreensaver, or can gnome-screensaver be
made to work?
Sean
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