On Fri Apr 08 2016 02:12:12, Tormod Volden wrote: > But let me be clear, I am only talking about the part "let's start the > hack with name X". For running helpers etc it would be nice to have a > reasonable PATH so xscreensaver-get-images & friends can be found > without that we force full paths on them, or clumsy soft links in > /usr/lib/xscreensaver - this would get messy since "friends" can > involve a lot of dependencies. Is it not possible to say, when X is a > name in preferences that has no path, to run /usr/lib/xscreensaver/X > but with full (unmodified) PATH?
Sorry, I don't understand what you're proposing. Can you give some examples? Why do you object to "just set $PATH in whatever script launched xscreensaver"? That seems simple to me. -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/
