Screensaver issue

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 19:53:38 UTC 2020


On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 20:18, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> I did that after I rebooted using Colin's suggestion.  After the
> reboot, xfce4-screensaver came back up, so I uninstalled it (purged
> it).  Now it's gone, hopefully for good.

Oh, come on, man, you know better than that. *Never* ask until you've
turned it off and back on again! :-(

> E: Unable to locate package xubuntu-restricted-extras

> $ apt-cache pkgnames | $grep $COLOR xscreensaver 2> /dev/null
> xscreensaver-gl
> xscreensaver-data
> xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
> xscreensaver-data-extra
> xscreensaver-screensaver-dizzy
> libopengl-xscreensaver-perl
> xscreensaver
> xscreensaver-screensaver-webcollage
> xscreensaver-gl-extra

OK, those are the extra packages I was referring to. I don't know why
the wildcard didn't get them. I would probably try with Synaptic IIWY.

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