Control: reassign -1 xscreensaver On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:50:02 +0100, Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.deti...@gmail.com> wrote: > xscreensaver tried to run 'zoom'; which resulted in this text in a > ugly yellow font on black backgroud: > > "zoom: invalid option -- 'r' > Try `zoom --help' or `zoom --usage' for more information." > > This can be reproduced with xscreensaver-demo; by running the last > screensaver from the list "Zoom". > > This bug does _NOT_ happen when "xscreensaver-data-extra" > which provides /usr/lib/xscreensaver/zoom is also installed. > > I guess renaming /usr/games/zoom to work around this is just wrong; > so this should be re-attributed to xscreensaver package (with a patch ?). > > It seems fix would be that xscreensave doesn't include > /usr/games in it's path anymore.
Or perhaps xscreensaver-demo should only look in /usr/lib/xscreensaver... (For the xscreensaver maintainers: the context here is that the zoom-player package provides /usr/games/zoom, which xscreensaver attempts to use for its Zoom screensaver if xscreensaver-data-extra isn't installed.) Regards, Stephen
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