On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 20:33, Michel Clasquin wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2001 18:56, you wrote: > > How do I remove some of the screensavers, an keep the rest? Do I need to > > delete some files, and can I easily guess the filenames? > > The xscreensaver modules (used in Gnome and most other environments) are > just regular executables and should be in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver. > KDE has its own screensavers, which are all in /usr/bin (Lawd help us, > what *won't* they chuck in there?), but can be distinguished because they > have a .kss extension. Try these commands in a terminal: > > locate xscreensaver > locate .kss > > and you should see what is happening on your system. > > Deleting the ones you don't like is quite safe (you'll need to be logged > in as root), though moving them to a temporary directory is perhaps > smarter. But keep in mind that your next install or upgrade might put them > back and you'll have to re-delete them. Oh yes, and run your environment's > screensaver setup applet after you're done, just to tidy up the config > files. In KDE you'll find it in kcontrol, in Gnome run xscreensaver-demo.
I did all you sayd (I'm using Gnome), deleted the files and ran xscreensaver-demo, but I still have all the screensavers in my controlpanel (and in xscreensaver-demo). What to do then?
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