GLSlideshow preferences under 8.04

[Sebastian Spiess]

Paul Gear wrote:
> Junin Toiro wrote:
>> 2008/8/21 Paul Gear <paul at libertysys.com.au>:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain to me how set preferences for GLSlideshow under
>>> gnome-screensaver?  Since i upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04, GLSlideshow's
>>> defaults have changed and i no longer see more than about 60% of my
>>> photos before it switches to the next one.  I want it to do fairly
>>> minimal panning & zooming so that i get to see most (all?) of the photos
>>> in my collection.
>>>
>>> ...
>> http://rclermont.blogspot.com/2007/02/modifying-glslideshow-settings-in_28.html
>>
>> Kinda bone headed decision to remove screensaver prefs in my opinion.
> 
> Thanks for that - worked a treat.
> 
Hi all,

this is great, I found a nice screensaver I really liked.
I set all up as suggested in the blog and it worked.

Added some picture folders to the .xscreensaver and ordered it to make random pics.

In the glslideshow.desktop I changed not much, some timing.

The preview workes, both. the one in the settings window and when I press the preview in full screen.

So all should work but it doesn't. When I leave the computer idle the screen dims and goes blank. This is where I think the 
screen saver should kick in but the screen goes bright again as if I had moved the mouse...

Any idea how I can make it work properly?

Sebastian