Clock screensaver?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Jul 15 20:10:52 UTC 2007


David Armour wrote:

>>> Thanks. I was actually looking for an analog clock like the one in
>>> Kubuntu.
>>>     
>> Ah, never mind.  Obviously you knew about that one :-)  Try installing it
>> - I'm not sure it will have any obvious dependencies on KDE.
>>   
> I'd sure like to know how to do that! Screensaver themes are stored in
> /usr/share/applications/screensavers. Kde screensavers, on the other
> hand, ....are stored in /usr/share/applnk/System/Screensavers. And I do
> tend to get hung up -- still -- on the ol' permissions issue. Still,
> could it be as simple as copying kclock.kss from
> /usr/share/applnk/System/Screensavers into the appropriate
> gnome-specific subdirectory? The hell you say!

It shouldn't even be that difficult.  The actual kclock.kss is
in /usr/bin/kclock.kss.

I don't know enough about screensavers to know whether it really has any KDE
dependencies, or if those are just about the window manager's interactions
with the screensaver.  
-- 
derek





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