Bug#425297: electricsheep doesn't work with gnome-screensaver
Vincent Lönngren
bice77 at malmo2.net
Tue May 22 20:20:26 UTC 2007
tis 2007-05-22 klockan 21:34 +0200 skrev Sven Arvidsson:
> Hi,
>
> Do you know if it supports the $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW environment
> variable? That's the only way xscreensaver hacks drawing to the root
> window is supported in gnome-screensaver.
>
> I have tried getting it to run directly from the shell, but it keeps
> complaining about "cannot retrieve sheep".
>
I have no idea if it supports that variable, but I'm happy to help
finding out if you tell me how. Starting it with
XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW=some_stuff_here electricsheep doesn't seem to make a
difference.
"Cannot retrieve sheep" sounds like a temporary server problem.
--
Vincent Lönngren <bice77 at malmo2.net>
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