Re: [opensuse] How to configure the text displayed in the StarWars screen saver?

On Thursday 2007-05-10 02:37, M Harris wrote:
On Thursday 10 May 2007 01:24, M Harris wrote:
        1) Enter the Control Center             suse-->control center
        2) Appearance & Themes, Screen Saver, Banners & Pictures,
StarWars 3) click Setup
        4) enter the file name in the Text Program field
                If you click the button to the right you can select the
file from a dialog The field can accept a program, a file name, or a
URL... this is configurable from the Advanced tab.
        5) test and apply

... and if that doesn't work,

... remember that everything in linux is a file. The StarWars screensaver
is configured for xscreensaver in:

/etc/xscreensaver/starwars.xml

Thanks! If I had only know where it was...

This is just a text file... edit it to your hearts content with your
favorite editor... if you're a real man you'll use vi , otherwise you'll
use whatever whimpy editor you like... joe... emacs... ;-P

You mean someone wasted their time writing text editors other than vi ?

It appears this XML file just controls the configuration of the screen saver
setup dialog itself, not the actual screen saver. This is curious: The Text
Program control is commented out in the XML file:

<!-- <file id="program" _label="Text Program" arg="-program %"/> -->

That explains why the control isn't there. I didn't screw with it, so why is
it commented out?

I uncommented it and now the widget appears on the setup dialog. The screen
blanker wouldn't work with just the name of the text file. The message
scrolled by indicates the shell tried and failed to execute the file. So,
entering " cat nameofmyfile " instead works fine.

Thanks.
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