Bug#816722: zoom-player: interraction with xscreensaver

[Stephen Kitt]

Control: reassign -1 xscreensaver

On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:50:02 +0100, Alexandre Detiste
<alexandre.detiste at 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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