Setting splash to False has no effect on outdated-messages

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I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 dev with xscreensaver 5.26-1ubuntu3 and currently I'm seeing the message "WARNING: This version is very old!
Please upgrade!" on every login on my desktop even if the option splash is set to False. Because this message is affected by the option splashDuration I'm assuming it should also be affected by the option splash.

[Jamie Zawinski (jwz)]

Here's a better idea -- why don't you switch to a distro that doesn't force software on you that is thirteen months old and six releases behind?

It is unconscionable that your distro is making their users deal with bugs that were fixed *years* before. That's a despicable way to treat the users (you) and the developers (me).

[Jamie Zawinski (jwz)]

If your distro refuses to ship current versions of my software, then my preference is that your distro not ship my software at all.

I'm completely serious. If you're not going to keep xscreensaver up to date, then I request that you please remove xscreensaver from your distro.

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While I agree that it would be nice to have up to date software there is still a bug (except "It is unconscionable that your distro is making their users deal with bugs that were fixed *years* before." means that this bug is already fixed in a newer version) that could also trigger in an up to date version of xscreensaver.

[Jamie Zawinski (jwz)]

The only bug here is that your distro is not shipping up-to-date software.

xscreensaver is behaving as intended.

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> xscreensaver is behaving as intended.

And what if the system clock of a system with an up to date xscreensaver gets changed while the option splash is set to False? Or what if the development gets inactive for a too long time? Would xscreensaver then show the message too?

[Jamie Zawinski (jwz)]

You should probably ask these questions here: https://what-if.xkcd.com/

[Fefu (fefu)]

I've found a workaround. You can modify the file ~/.xscreensaver . The variable
  splash: True
should be switched to
  splash: False

You can do it by hand with
  # nano ~/.xscreensaver

or by executing these two lines which will make a backup (~/.xscreensaver.old) of the original configuration file and filter it with sed to place the modified version in the place of the previous one:
# cp ~/.xscreensaver ~/.xscreensaver.old
# sed 's/splash:.*/splash: False/' ~/.xscreensaver.old > ~/.xscreensaver

Once you are satisfied with the results, you can remove the backup file with
# rm ~/.xscreensaver.old

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Are you sure that you have tested this against an outdated-message and not another message? Because this problem was reported because setting the option splash to False did not solve this issue.