Hi,
I'm currently moving all our local school's desktop clients from
Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7 + Xfce. Right now I'm fine-tuning the default
user profile.
I have a problem with XScreenSaver. The application per se works very
well. Only there's a hard-coded pop-up window that reminds the user tha
On Apr 8, 2018, at 07:54, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently moving all our local school's desktop clients from
> Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7 + Xfce. Right now I'm fine-tuning the default
> user profile.
>
> I have a problem with XScreenSaver. The application per se works very
> wel
On Sun, April 8, 2018 6:54 am, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently moving all our local school's desktop clients from
> Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7 + Xfce. Right now I'm fine-tuning the default
> user profile.
This is a big change, so it must be prompted by substantial reason. Would
you
Le 08/04/2018 à 16:25, Valeri Galtsev a écrit :
> This is a big change, so it must be prompted by substantial reason.
> Would you mind share it: what about slackware was that bad to prompt
> it.
>
> Thanks a lot for your insights!
At the time of the change, about a year ago, I've written a short
Le 08/04/2018 à 13:54, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit :
> As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem.
>
> 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date.
>
> 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get the annoying popup.
>
> 3. Maintain my own up-to-date version o
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 1:06 PM Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 08/04/2018 à 13:54, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit :
> > As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem.
> >
> > 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date.
> >
> > 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get
Le 08/04/2018 à 21:47, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit :
> Yeah that is pretty classic JWZ... well except he didn’t say
> something anatomically impossible. I think he may have mellowed a
> bit. I will see if the EPEL version can be updated. Also to make sure
> that he doesn’t get the bugs since he do
Le 08/04/2018 à 21:47, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit :
> Yeah that is pretty classic JWZ... well except he didn’t say something
> anatomically impossible. I think he may have mellowed a bit.
This mister JWZ just blogged and tweeted loudly about it, and it looks
like he hates CentOS as much as he ha
Yikes, that's a good baseline for drama. That twitter profile picture should be
a big enough red flag
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On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 22:28:04 +0200
Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> This mister JWZ just blogged and tweeted loudly about it,
He apparently doesn't understand what his own software does, either:
"They had to CLICK OK on a dialog box after they rebooted!!"
The dialog box comes up when you log in, not when
On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, Chris Adams wrote:
>Is there an DHCPv6 client in CentOS that supports prefix delegation
>correctly?
Tried dibbler?
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On 2018-04-08, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem.
>
> 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date.
>
> 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get the annoying popup.
>
> 3. Maintain my own up-to-date version of XScreenSa
Le 09/04/2018 à 00:33, Keith Keller a écrit :
> I think you can use the --no-splash switch.
>
> https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html
>
> There's probably also a config setting in .xscreensaver.
No, there's no configuration setting. And no way to turn it off. Patrick
Volkerding wrote about
Once upon a time, Nicolas Kovacs said:
> No, there's no configuration setting. And no way to turn it off. Patrick
> Volkerding wrote about this some time ago in Slackware's ChangeLog.txt,
> explaining he decided to upgrade this single piece of software
> mid-release just to get rid of the nagging
On 2018-04-08, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 09/04/2018 à 00:33, Keith Keller a écrit :
>> I think you can use the --no-splash switch.
>>
>> https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html
>>
>> There's probably also a config setting in .xscreensaver.
>
> No, there's no configuration setting. And no way
Le 09/04/2018 à 03:04, Chris Adams a écrit :
> It's Open Source - patching to remove such a nag is legal and a service
> to the users.
>
> It's a screensaver program - how many updates does it need anyway? If
> it is just updates to add more fancy animations, there is zero reason to
> demand peop
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