Small change needed for work-around to Bug #22007

[Conrad Knauer]

A work-around for Bug #22007 currently requires uninstalling ubuntu-desktop; this is sub-optimal. A small modification to ubuntu-desktop would resolve this until the actual problem is itself squashed. Where it now (in Synaptic) says:

Depends: gnome-screensaver

please change it to read:

Depends: gnome-screensaver | xscreensaver

Thank you.

[Conrad Knauer (atheoi)]

(just to clarify, the "|" is an "or" dependency)

[Conrad Knauer (atheoi)]

Oliver Grawert (see Bug #22007) says that this cannot be done in the way I am describing... If that is the case, can a dummy package, say "screensaver" be produced such that:

ubuntu-desktop
Depends: screensaver

and

screensaver
Depends: gnome-screensaver | xscreensaver

in the same way that "totem" exists to install either totem-gstreamer or totem-xine.

Thanks again.

[Elijah Lofgren (elijahlofgren)]

I would like to confirm that I would also like this changed.

Another way to work around the problem with not being able to change screensaver settings or preview them fullscreen is to do the following:

   1. Install xscreensaver if you haven't

      sudo apt-get install xscreensaver

   2. Make it so that gnome-screensaver cannot be run:

      chmod -x /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver

   3. Choose your screensaver using Xscreensaver and say yes if it asks if you want to start the Xscreensaver daemon (gnome-screensaver disables the xscreensaver daemon.)

      xscreensaver-demo

[Scott Beamer (angrykeyboarder)]

Raises hand.

Me too.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/22121