GLsideshow

[Michael Haney]

The Gnome guys need to be flogged.  I don't know what they're smoking
but its definitely tainted.  No wonder Canonical is having issues with
them.  There is NO way to easily configure screensavers.  Especially
the GL screensavers.  This is about as brain dead a screwup as
removing the monitor selection function from the preferences window
for changing the screen resolution.  Maybe switching to Unity is a
good thing.  Canonical can add back in UI options that Gnome has been
systematically removing.

I've done several Google searches for answers to my question, so far
what I've found doesn't work.

Right now the GLslideshow defaults to images in /usr/shared/backgrounds

I want it to use images in my /home/username/Pictures directory.

I DO NOT want to move my images from the Pictures directory to the
background directory.  That's not an option.

I've tried what was suggest in forums I found via Google searches.
That is to create a file called .xscreensavers in my Home directory
and put the line "imageDirectory: /home/username/Pictures" in it and
the xscreensavers will then use that directory instead of the default.
 Well, that didn't work.

I can find plenty of stuff on how to "configure" the behavior of how
glslideshow displays images, but now which directory it uses for
images.  There are some suggestions, but they can't be used in 10.10
because the screensaver preferences window no longer has an Advanced
tab nor a button to access the settings option for any of the
screensavers.

What the hell were the Gnome devs thinking!?

I'm not going to bother doing a bug report, I tried that with the
monitor issue and nothing was done.  Absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Got any suggestions which aren't complex and mysterious?  There has to
be a way to do this.

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