Re: Change my screensaver in GNOME Suse 9.2

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_sirius.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:00:23 GMT

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Sven Lossman
<lossman99@yahoo.com>
 wrote
on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:01:56 -0500
<39pstbF64fupkU2@individual.net>:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:49:19 -0800, All-You-Can-Eat wrote:
>
>> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>>
>>> Most likely:
>>>
>>> Gnome foot/Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Screensaver
>>
>> No...I don't see that at all. THere is
>>
>> There's
>>
>> It's /Programs/Utilities/Desktop/GNOME control center
>>
>> but that only has wallpaper, not a screensaver.
>>
>>>
>>> This will pop up a dialog that allows, among other things,
>>> "blank after N minutes" and "cycle after N minutes".
>>> You can also set the items you want the screensaver to
>>> cycle through -- which can get rather distracting... :-)
>>>
>>> If you're *not* using XScreenSaver, 'man xset', and take a look
>>> at the 's' option. (Admittedly, this is rather unlikely.)
>>>
>
> What a joke.
> So tell me again, how great Linux is.
> I keep forgetting every time I use it,

And you're using it precisely why?

Windows is a great OS. Linux is a great OS. Use whichever one
tickles your fancy. Just remember that with Windows, other
things might do nasty things to your mundane in the process,
without proper protection... :-) 

-- 
#191, ewill3@earthlink.net
It's still legal to go .sigless.

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