Comments on: Cool linux screensaver

By: abdo

abdo — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:51:37 +0000

thanks you brother,that i was looking for

By: Bunkai

Bunkai — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:18:01 +0000

Sorry for the double post, but I just found another person’s modified desktop file that pointed me to the problem.

The TryExec line should not have any arguments on it, only the Exec line. This is what those two lines now look like for me and it’s working great:

TryExec=/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/phosphor
Exec=/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/phosphor -root -scale 2 -ticks 13 -program ‘cat `/usr/src/phosphor-kernel-src.pl`’

Thanks!

By: Bunkai

Bunkai — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:09:16 +0000

I know this isn’t exactly a new post, but does anyone have any ideas why this hack will not work with the xscreensaver-gss version of phosphor?

I’ve manually verified the create script, the contents of the .pl and the cat command and all were successful.

I’ve edited /usr/share/applications/screensavers/xscreensaver-phosphor.desktop from this:
TryExec=/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/phosphor
Exec=/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/phosphor -root

to this:
TryExec=/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/phosphor -program ‘cat `/usr/src/phosphor-kernel-src.pl`’
Exec=/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/phosphor -root -program ‘cat `/usr/src/phosphor-kernel-src.pl`’

And now Phosphor doesn’t even show up as an option in my screensaver list. I revert it back to the original exec lines above and it shows up again.

By: 文字檔內容作為螢幕保護程式畫面 « Jamyy's Weblog

文字檔內容作為螢幕保護程式畫面 « Jamyy's Weblog — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:11:04 +0000

[...] BloggEd! – Cool Linux Screensaver [...]

By: Otto

Otto — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:36:42 +0000

Very good! Thank you!
I’ll modify and use in the work’s computer to print our project’s code

By: Eddie Niese

Eddie Niese — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:21:04 +0000

Benjamin said:

Hey,
I don’t seem to have the “text program” box in my screensaver settings.

Please take the trouble to skim through other peoples comment before posting a question. Your question is already answered by Chad Jorgenson. Check the configuration file (phosphor.xml) of the screensaver.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:46:59 +0000

Hey,
I don’t seem to have the “text program” box in my screensaver settings. Yeah the screensaver is installed, but theres only a bunch of unrelated settings.. Would it make a difference if i’m using Ubuntu 8.4, with the GDM screen manager instead of KDE?
Thanks!

By: Chad Jorgenson

Chad Jorgenson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:39:45 +0000

Well, so this forum engine doesn’t support the code comments I guess, but you should see some HTML comment tags in the phosphor.xml config file to comment out. Sorry..

By: Chad Jorgenson

Chad Jorgenson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:03:29 +0000

So in Fedora 8 (and I bet Fedora 7) and presumably in Suse 10.3 from the reference above, the config file (/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/phosphor.xml in Fedora for phosphor has some lines commented out:

–>

So if we change it to look like below

I see the new options when I go to reconfigure my screensaver.

By: Nikesh

Nikesh — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:19:18 +0000

Thanks, I just latest xscreensaver package with the older one, Now working fine

Thanks Man