On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 12:03:49AM +0100, Frédéric Pierret wrote:
> We built the upstream package of xscreensaver in current-testing for
> both Qubes 3.2 and 4.0.
> 
> Welcome back to XFCE Chris :D !
> 
> On 1/3/19 11:56 PM, Chris Laprise wrote:
> > On 01/03/2019 02:00 PM, Achim Patzner wrote:
> >> Am Mittwoch, den 02.01.2019, 20:42 -0800 schrieb pixel fairy:
> >>> xscreensaver complains about being an old version. doubt this
> >>> matters, but might scare some users.
> >>
> >> There are worse problems with it (and some of them depend on X and the
> >> hardware you're running on) which might also warrant finding something
> >> different. I just have to find some time for constant rebooting of my
> >> system to create a meaningful bug report.
> >>
> >> (To give you an idea: Imagine a machine (let's call it Lenovo P52) with
> >> multiple GPUs where certain output channels are connected to one of the
> >> GPUs only starting a screen server. If you connect your second monitor
> >> to the right port the screen saver will not blank one of them if you
> >> start X without an appropriately xorg.conf... And to make things worse
> >> it also depends on the GPU you are using and the phase of the moon.)
> >
> > The bad screensaver is one of the reasons I switched back to KDE, and
> > why I recommend it to other Qubes users. The default environment
> > doesn't rise to the level of an every day functional desktop.
> >

Is this a thing now? Is Qubes going to provide updated packages for any
other software? 

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