Saturday, October 25, 2008

Gnome Screensaver 
& How To Set a Different Pictures 
for some screensavers

You can set the different pictures by doing this.

I rename the original /usr/share/backgrounds to /usr/share/backgrounds.orig.
Then I create a new /usr/share/backgrounds.
Here I put some my favorite pictures.

Then I have to edit ~/.xscreensaver-getimage.cache to get quick response from gnome-screensaver to use new pictures from /usr/share/backgrounds
    /usr/share/backgrounds
    <enter some pictures here>

Real example of ~/.xscreensaver-getimage.cache
    /usr/share/backgrounds
    img0028tjd.jpg
    classical-girl-010b.jpg
    mir3-1280x800.jpg


Example of screensavers that use pictures:
Slidescreen



Flipscreen3d



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