Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

2006-03-14 Thread David Kempe
Simon Wong wrote: It's Ubuntu but I've only done a bare bones installation by a seed file. I'm learning how to do that so I've probably left off something there too! did you include ubuntu-base? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

2006-03-14 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:39 +1100, David Kempe wrote: did you include ubuntu-base? um, no I have installed that now. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

2006-03-14 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:43 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Make sure you have ubuntu-standard and ubuntu-minimal installed. Check! P.S. Hope to catch up at LWA. Will proba see Pia at the stand so will ask your whereabouts ;-) -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

2006-03-14 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 19:09 +1100, Erle Pereira wrote: sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Thanks, I will give that a go... -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

2006-03-13 Thread Simon Wong
What I want is a nice simple scrolling text screen saver for a simple PC kiosk running X (dare i say marquee?!). The only one vaguely close is Fontglide but I'm getting perl locale errors running that on my minimal installation. Can anyone suggest an alternative? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

2006-03-13 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:30 +1100, Erle Pereira wrote: How about Phosphor... You will make it look like the old 'green' plasma screens :) Well, that gives me locale errors too! In fact, any text screensaver does. Maybe I need to look at why that's a problem. I'd prefer something that just

Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

2006-03-13 Thread Erle Pereira
Simon Wong wrote: Well, that gives me locale errors too! In fact, any text screensaver does. Maybe I need to look at why that's a problem. I'd prefer something that just scrolled a single line of text though... yup, I suggest thats where you start. If you are getting locale errors for all,

Re: [SLUG] Xscreensaver too advanced!

2006-03-13 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:47 +1100, Erle Pereira wrote: yup, I suggest thats where you start. If you are getting locale errors for all, thats where you shoud be looking. I actually didn't really want to hence my post. Fontglide has multiple lines of the same text scrolling on the screen and