GLsideshow

[Basil Chupin]

On 23/03/2011 15:52, Michael Haney wrote:
> 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.

And you cannot copy them to that /usr/share directory?

BC

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