More info: Was reading on another <a href="http://fuxoft.blogspot.com/2006/06 /nvidia-and-mplayer-dont-like-electric.html">thread</a>... One way I was able to get ElectricSheep working was:
1. apt-get install mplayer 2.open mplayer in my X session manually and leave it running 3. start electricsheep with --mplayer 1 Oddly enough if one doesn't start mplayer then it doesn't work. Even with mplayer running I couldn't get gnome-screensaver to launch ElectricSheep successfully (just get black screen still). Could it be the way i'm specifying the launch parameters in /usr/share/gnome- screensaver/themes/electricsheep.desktop ? Here's what I have, am I quoting the "Exec" line right, and does TryExec need anything? I thought tryExec was only checked to see if the binary exists, which gets used to determine if the .desktop file should get put into the list of screensavers in System->Preferences->Screensavers... [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=ElectricSheep Comment=Tim rules TryExec=electricsheep Exec="/usr/local/bin/electricsheep --max-megabytes 0 --mplayer 1 --standalone 1" StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Screensaver -- Recent changes seem to have broken electricsheep https://launchpad.net/bugs/5823 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
