XScreenSaver-6.00
Installation of XScreenSaver
Change a harcoded library name, which prevents using the settings
found by configure:
sed -i 's/-lsystemd/-lelogind/' driver/Makefile.in
Install XScreenSaver by running
the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
Command Explanations
--with-setuid-hacks
: This switch allows
some demos to be installed setuid root
which is needed in order to ping other
hosts.
Configuring XScreenSaver
Config
Files
/etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver
and ~/.xscreensaver
Linux
PAM Configuration
If XScreenSaver has been built
with Linux PAM support, you need
to create a PAM configuration
file, to get it working correctly with BLFS.
Issue the following commands as the root
user to create the configuration file
for Linux PAM:
cat > /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver
auth include system-auth
account include system-account
# End /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver
EOF
Contents
Installed Programs:
xscreensaver, xscreensaver-command,
xscreensaver-demo, xscreensaver-getimage,
xscreensaver-getimage-file, xscreensaver-getimage-video,
xscreensaver-gl-helper, xscreensaver-settings and
xscreensaver-text
Installed Libraries:
None
Installed Directories:
/usr/libexec/xscreensaver and
/usr/share/xscreensaver
Short Descriptions
xscreensaver
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is a screen saver and locker daemon
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xscreensaver-command
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controls a running xscreensaver process by
sending it client messages
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xscreensaver-demo
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is a symlink to xscreensaver-settings
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xscreensaver-getimage
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is a helper program for the xscreensaver modules
that manipulate images
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xscreensaver-getimage-file
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is a helper program for the xscreensaver modules
that manipulate images
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xscreensaver-getimage-video
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is a helper program for the xscreensaver modules
that manipulate images
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xscreensaver-gl-helper
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is a helper program for the xscreensaver OpenGL
modules
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xscreensaver-gl-visual
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is a helper program for the xscreensaver OpenGL
modules to figure out which X visual to use
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xscreensaver-settings
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is a graphical front-end for setting the parameters used
by the background xscreensaver daemon
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xscreensaver-text
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prints some text to stdout, for use by screen savers
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Last updated on 2021-04-03 12:32:26 -0500