Doesn't show up in gnome-screensaver list

[Wouter Stomp]

Even though electricsheep (2.6.8-1ubuntu1) is installed on my system (running edgy) it doesn't show up in the gnome-screensaver dialog.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

I also added gnome-screensaver as an affected package, as I am not sure the problem is with electricsheep or gnome-screensaver.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

gnome-screensaver expects now the desktop files for the screensavers in /usr/share/applications/screensavers/ and electricsheep installs it in /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/ (the old location).

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Here's a debdiff that probably fixes the problem. I didn't touch the KDE stuff - I hope nothing has changed there.

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

The gnome-screensaver task should be rejected unless there is something that can be done to help the transition (i.e. make it look in /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes as well )

[William Jon McCann (mccann)]

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-f718251faff163b00686836433c40cb7ef726c7d

or

http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/screensavers-3.html

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

There's nothing to be done for gnome-screensaver, closing task.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Any chance of this being fixed in time before edgy release??? I really miss my sheep ;-)

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Did this make it into edgy?

[Brian Pitts (bpitts)]

The fix did not make it into Edgy. You have to

mv
/usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/electricsheep.desktop /usr/share/applications/screensavers/electricsheep.desktop

Also, to fix bug #2379 you must edit /usr/share/applications/screensavers/electricsheep.desktop

Change the line:

Exec=electricsheep --root 1

to

Exec=electricsheep --root 1 --zoom 1

After all this it likely still won't work due to bug #5823. At a terminal you can fix 5823 by substituting --root 1 with --mplayer 1, but this doesn't work in the .desktop file.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

After looking at that debdiff it looks like it would do the job perfectly for this bug.

If an MOTU sees this, please take care of bug 2379 at the same time. It's the second half of Brian's comment.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:03:43 -0800
Source: electricsheep
Binary: electricsheep
Architecture: source
Version: 2.6.8-5ubuntu2
Distribution: feisty
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Kees Cook <email address hidden>
Description:
 electricsheep - screensaver showing collective dream of sleeping computers
Changes:
 electricsheep (2.6.8-5ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low
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   * debian/rules: Fix path to .desktop file (Closes LP#56436).
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[canatella (dam-cosinux)]

It still does not work in gutsy for me, even after copying the file.