"Most of the screensavers are useless without configuration. Would it be difficult to take the settings code from Xscreensaver and put it into Gnomescreensaver"
No, in fact I have made a program that lets you change your screensaver settings in xscreensaver and then updates the corrosponding gnome- screensaver .desktop files accordingly. That way you get the functionality of xscreensaver while still being able to use gnome power-management. The main problems with it are 1: That it requires root privaleges to edit the .desktop files 2: That it cannot save seperate settings for separate accounts 3: It is written in java because that is all I currently know, and is poorly programmed because I was trying to get it done quickly and frankly I am not an experienced programmer. So we could concievably keep xscreensaver-demo while still using gnome- screensaver, but it is a dirty hack in my opinion If anyone want's to use this or make their own version of it here are the files. http://trogdoor.googlepages.com/ConfigSaver.java (source ) http://trogdoor.googlepages.com/ConfigSaver.class ( application ) http://trogdoor.googlepages.com/ConfigSaver ( script that just starts xscreensaver-demo then runs configsaver when xscreensaver-demo is closed ) -- no 'Settings' button in gnome-screensaver https://launchpad.net/bugs/22007 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
