Bug#312003: xscreensaver: /usr/dict/words is needed for webcollage. Missing symlink maybe.

2005-06-04 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Webcollage looks for any of /usr/dict/words, /usr/share/dict/words, or /usr/share/lib/dict/words; there is no need for a symlink. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#308720: corrected patch

2005-06-04 Thread Jamie Zawinski
attached a corrected patch. I don't think that patch quite works either. I think a simpler fix is to just always wrap one column earlier: - sprintf (program + strlen(program), oprogram, state-grid_width); + sprintf (program + strlen(program), oprogram, state-grid_width-1); -- Jamie Zawinski

Bug#308668: xscreensaver does not start on amd64

2005-06-02 Thread Jamie Zawinski
* xinerama. (Which pretty much nobody ever does.) -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#310315: noof: slightly broken under xinerama

2005-05-25 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Michael Deegan wrote: Ah. When launched from kscreensaver, KDE's screensaver system is not xscreensaver, and is messed up in all kinds of ways. http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#310315: noof: slightly broken under xinerama

2005-05-22 Thread Jamie Zawinski
noof works fine for me with a pair of 1600x1200 screens (3200x1200 root window) on an Nvidia e-GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. The bug is in your video card or video driver, not noof or xscreensaver. (Fine means two copies of noof are started, one on each screen; they don't overlap or interfere with each

Bug#309902: xscreensaver-command: Options -(un)throttle are undocumented

2005-05-20 Thread Jamie Zawinski
the mode menu in xscreensaver-demo. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#309902: xscreensaver-command: Options -(un)throttle are undocumented

2005-05-20 Thread Jamie Zawinski
as it would on a desktop machine when DPMS kicked in.) So I don't think you need to do either of those things. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnalounge.com/ http

Bug#309441: xscreensaver: Better handling of failing hacks

2005-05-17 Thread Jamie Zawinski
This is an idiotic idea. Fix your machine instead. All the time spent implementing this crazy blacklist detection system of yours would be better spent getting your video driver functioning properly. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org

Bug#309452: xscreensaver: Want global setting for minimum frame rate

2005-05-17 Thread Jamie Zawinski
xscreensaver has no global notion of frame rate, so this is impossible. Also, it's a problem that will go away if we just take a year to think about it. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Bug#309443: xscreensaver: ignoreUninstalledPrograms should default to True

2005-05-17 Thread Jamie Zawinski
. (Strike 3!) -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#309441: xscreensaver: Better handling of failing hacks

2005-05-17 Thread Jamie Zawinski
. If GL doesn't work on your machine, un-check the GL hacks. If you think some hack is too slow on your machine, un-check it. If you think some hack is ugly, un-check it. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Bug#308105: xscreensaver-gl: UTF-8 and format string in GLText (clock)

2005-05-08 Thread Jamie Zawinski
is to display months at words instead. There is, as far as I know, no way to ever configure one's locale to display month names instead of month numbers for %x. That makes %x a bad choice. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL

Bug#307053: /usr/bin/xscreensaver-text: xscreensaver-text does not handle rss feeds

2005-04-30 Thread Jamie Zawinski
The upcoming 4.22 version handles a lot more feed types. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#305528: xscreensaver: Stop thermometer from sinking when you're typing

2005-04-30 Thread Jamie Zawinski
That's not a bad idea; I've made it add 10% to the time remaining every time you type a key. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnalounge.com/ http

Bug#305562: xscreensaver: Add feature to show name of hack

2005-04-20 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Sometimes I see a hack I haven't seen before (often shortly after having upgraded xscreensaver) and wish to know it's name. In that situation I would like to press some key(-combination) and have xscreensaver tell me the name of the currently running hack. When you run xscreensaver-demo (the

Bug#304344: xscreensaver: xanalogtv hack aborts after a short while

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Mouette foolishly changed logo-50.xpm from a 1-byte 16-color XPM to a 2-byte 256-color XPM. Back out his patch and it'll work again. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnalounge.com

Bug#302777: xscreensaver: Seg faults / hangs randomly after previewing hacks

2005-04-04 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Most of that stack trace is nonsense -- either something smashed it, or gdb is full of lies. (Those are about equally likely, I think.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#302791: xscreensaver will not launch, reports couldn't setgroups to...

2005-04-02 Thread Jamie Zawinski
one group, our target; however, the call would still fail if there were any other groups there. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnalounge.com/ http

Bug#302791: xscreensaver will not launch, reports couldn't setgroups to...

2005-04-02 Thread Jamie Zawinski
If by that you mean: 4.19 was running; you installed 4.21; and you did xscreensaver-command -restart (or killall xscreensaver -HUP), then maybe what happened is that the new 4.21 executable picked up the setgid bit that had been associated with the running 4.19 pid (since you were re-execing the

Bug#163685: Halfway there

2005-03-23 Thread Jamie Zawinski
For 4.22, I've added a -transparent arg to bubbles (there's no reason for GLB_USE_BLENDING to have been a compile-time-option.) However, that mode looks pretty crappy anyway. It makes the bubbles not look 3d at all, and the specular reflections go away. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#300962: xscreensaver: Add pretty lock dialogue from Ubuntu?

2005-03-23 Thread Jamie Zawinski
it. This doesn't solve any of the accessibility issues discussed in http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html of course, but it would make it possible for the lock dialog to match the look of the desktop. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org

Bug#211726: xscreensaver: DPM settings caped at 24hours

2005-03-21 Thread Jamie Zawinski
The X protocol measures the various DPMS in seconds, as an unsigned short. 65535 / 60 / 60 = 18 hours 12 minutes. So, X can't do it, you're out of luck... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#236874: xscreensaver: pacman screensaver plays game incorrectly

2005-03-21 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Fixed in 4.21! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#276142: xscreensaver: allow another username/password to start a second X session

2005-03-21 Thread Jamie Zawinski
xscreensaver 4.21 (just released) has support for a New Login button that runs gdmflexiserver. However, on my machine, gdmflexiserver wedges X, so it's not enabled by default... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#165834: Bug is there in 4.20

2005-03-21 Thread Jamie Zawinski
I *think* 4.21 fixes this -- let me know? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#300285: xscreensaver-demo attempts to launch gnome-terminal

2005-03-18 Thread Jamie Zawinski
xscreensaver-demo attempts to use gnome-terminal when viewing the documentation for a hack, but gnome-terminal is not installed. I suspect it should be calling x-terminal-emulator instead. WTF is x-terminal-emulator? Until someone sends me a comprehensible, documented patch to configure.in

Bug#52510: acknowledged by developer (Can't be fixed)

2005-03-17 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Matthew Vernon wrote: Can I suggest you at least document this fact? Can I suggest you RTFM? This has been in the xscreensaver manual for at least ten years. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#298801: javascript msgbox at firefox suspend xscreensaver lock

2005-03-09 Thread Jamie Zawinski
RTFAQ -- http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#popup-windows -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#219041: xscreensaver: TV-Emulation fails on Alpha (affects pong, apple2, xanalogtv)

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
This was fixed in xscreensaver 4.15. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#269381: Xplanet screensaver has OBOE in longitude code setting

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Fixed in xscreensaver 4.18. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#222734: xscreensaver: pyro has buggy explosions

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Thanks, this patch will be in xscreensaver 4.21. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#237661: kscreensaver: XScreensaver is called with wrong parameters

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
xscreensaver.kss has been removed from the xscreensaver distribution as of xscreensaver 4.20. http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#260160: xscreensaver: Barcode garbled on MIPS (SGI Indy), possible edianness issue.

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Fixed in xscreensaver 4.17. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#280652: analogtv code (used by apple2, bsod, pong, xanalogtv) broken on systems where char is unsigned by default

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Fixed in xscreensaver 4.19. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#293297: attraction: Ball Mass and Ball Count not independently controllable

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Fixed in xscreensaver 4.17. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#199527: xscreensaver: popup windows appear on top of screensaver

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
This behavior is controlled by the window manager, not by xscreensaver. It's in the FAQ: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#popup-windows -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#274449: xscreensaver: minor typo in the nerverot.6x man page

2005-02-23 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Fixed in xscreensaver 4.20. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#274047: xscreensaver: GLSlideShow: Show image titles erases previous title too late

2005-02-23 Thread Jamie Zawinski
This is fixed in xscreensaver 4.20 (titles are drawn with true transparency now.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#292283: xscreensaver: Unknown option for lightning

2005-02-23 Thread Jamie Zawinski
This is fixed in xscreensaver 4.20 (just released.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#206741: Aw: Re: Bug#206741: KDE Support (XScreenSaver.desktop) doesn't fit to supplied xscreensaver.kss

2005-01-24 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Well, after thinking about it some more, I'm inclined to remove this xscreensaver.kss file from the next release of xscreensaver (unless I hear a good reason not to.) I added it at someone's request years ago, but now I think it just doesn't belong there at all. If the KDE folks think they

Bug#206741: Aw: Re: Bug#206741: Aw: Re: Bug#206741: KDE Support (XScreenSaver.desktop) doesn't fit to supplied xscreensaver.kss

2005-01-24 Thread Jamie Zawinski
I don't think the KDE folks want the xscreensaver integrated into KDE, because KDE comes with a collection of screensavers. Uh, as far as I know, the so-called KDE screensavers are all ports from xscreensaver. A massive wasted effort. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#206741: KDE Support (XScreenSaver.desktop) doesn't fit to supplied xscreensaver.kss

2005-01-23 Thread Jamie Zawinski
You cannot just run xscreensaver-command -lock that is not how KDE Screensaver work. Please explain. Because that's *exactly* what they should be doing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#291100: xscreensaver won't start with XDMCP setup

2005-01-20 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heh. Looks like there's a byteswapping bug in XRandR. Nice catch. Note that the erroneous value (0x100) is a byteswapped short from the valid value (0x1). Then note that the value isn't byteswapped in the X server. Fix follows. -keith

Bug#291100: xscreensaver won't start with XDMCP setup

2005-01-18 Thread Jamie Zawinski
I suspect this is a bug in the xrandr extension. I can work around it by trapping errors around that call if this is, in fact, a common bug (as opposed to something specific to your setup, or your version of the server.) But I'd like to hear what the X folks have to say about it first, though.

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