Looking for a screen-saver with a working clock

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

Is there some screen-saver with a working clock for XFCE?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Les Gray]

Hi,

I use Xubuntu, which ships with xscreensaver. In the screensaver
settings manager, under the 'advanced' tab, you have an option to
display host name and time on your chosen screensaver.

Cheers,
Les

Post by Paul Smith
Dear All
Is there some screen-saver with a working clock for XFCE?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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[Paul Smith]

Post by Les Gray
I use Xubuntu, which ships with xscreensaver. In the screensaver
settings manager, under the 'advanced' tab, you have an option to
display host name and time on your chosen screensaver.

Post by Paul Smith
Is there some screen-saver with a working clock for XFCE?

No, I do not mean that; I mean a screen-saver like the ones at

http://www.qwhale.com/products/screensaver/

Paul

[Bob Snyder]

Post by Paul Smith

Post by Les Gray
I use Xubuntu, which ships with xscreensaver. In the screensaver
settings manager, under the 'advanced' tab, you have an option to
display host name and time on your chosen screensaver.

Post by Paul Smith
Is there some screen-saver with a working clock for XFCE?

No, I do not mean that; I mean a screen-saver like the ones at
http://www.qwhale.com/products/screensaver/

Well, it's not exactly the same, but the "GLText (clock)" option in
xscreensaver gives a very nice 3D digital clock that can be configured
to show the day/date/time and arbitrary text. It can also move and
rotate. It's all configurable, so maybe you can get it to display just
what you want. It doesn't do an analog clock however.

Bob S.

[Paul Smith]

Post by Bob Snyder

Post by Paul Smith

Post by Les Gray
I use Xubuntu, which ships with xscreensaver. In the screensaver
settings manager, under the 'advanced' tab, you have an option to
display host name and time on your chosen screensaver.

Post by Paul Smith
Is there some screen-saver with a working clock for XFCE?

No, I do not mean that; I mean a screen-saver like the ones at
http://www.qwhale.com/products/screensaver/

Well, it's not exactly the same, but the "GLText (clock)" option in
xscreensaver gives a very nice 3D digital clock that can be configured
to show the day/date/time and arbitrary text. It can also move and
rotate. It's all configurable, so maybe you can get it to display just
what you want. It doesn't do an analog clock however.

Thanks, Bob. I would prefer an analog clock, but the one indicated by
you is fine to me.

Paul

[Paul Smith]

Post by Paul Smith

Post by Bob Snyder

Post by Paul Smith

Post by Les Gray
I use Xubuntu, which ships with xscreensaver. In the screensaver
settings manager, under the 'advanced' tab, you have an option to
display host name and time on your chosen screensaver.

Post by Paul Smith
Is there some screen-saver with a working clock for XFCE?

No, I do not mean that; I mean a screen-saver like the ones at
http://www.qwhale.com/products/screensaver/

Well, it's not exactly the same, but the "GLText (clock)" option in
xscreensaver gives a very nice 3D digital clock that can be configured
to show the day/date/time and arbitrary text. It can also move and
rotate. It's all configurable, so maybe you can get it to display just
what you want. It doesn't do an analog clock however.

Thanks, Bob. I would prefer an analog clock, but the one indicated by
you is fine to me.

I have just come across a screen-shot of the screen-saver that I wanted to mean:

Loading Image...

and

http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/

Paul

[Bob Snyder]

Post by Paul Smith

Post by Paul Smith
Thanks, Bob. I would prefer an analog clock, but the one indicated by
you is fine to me.

http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/pane.jpg
and
http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/

Yes, I agree this is a very nice looking clock. Since it's part of KDE,
it's included in my Slackware system (you likely have it too). So I
tried it by running kcontrol and running the test mode - works great. I
guess it's not compatible with xscreensaver, the default screensaver of
Xfce. Perhaps a KDE expert can explain if this is usable somehow under
Xfce without running KDE.

Bob S.

[Paul Smith]

Post by Bob Snyder

Post by Paul Smith

Post by Paul Smith
Thanks, Bob. I would prefer an analog clock, but the one indicated by
you is fine to me.

http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/pane.jpg
and
http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/

Yes, I agree this is a very nice looking clock. Since it's part of KDE,
it's included in my Slackware system (you likely have it too). So I
tried it by running kcontrol and running the test mode - works great. I
guess it's not compatible with xscreensaver, the default screensaver of
Xfce. Perhaps a KDE expert can explain if this is usable somehow under
Xfce without running KDE.

Meanwhile, I sent an e-mail to Jamie Zawinski (the xscreensavers
maintainer) asking him whether he could include a port of kclock in
xcreensavers. Let us see what will happen!

Paul

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Post by Bob Snyder

Post by Paul Smith

Post by Paul Smith
Thanks, Bob. I would prefer an analog clock, but the one indicated by
you is fine to me.

http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/pane.jpg
and
http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net/

Yes, I agree this is a very nice looking clock. Since it's part of KDE,
it's included in my Slackware system (you likely have it too). So I
tried it by running kcontrol and running the test mode - works great. I
guess it's not compatible with xscreensaver, the default screensaver of
Xfce. Perhaps a KDE expert can explain if this is usable somehow under
Xfce without running KDE.

fwiw, I have been using gnome-screensaver because I like the
locking/switchuser aspects of it. To make gnome-screensaver behave
like it was xscreensaver for purposes of xfce, I just symlinked
xscreensaver and xscreensaver-demo to the gnome-screensaver
equivalents. Seems to do the trick with no obvious issues I can see.

andrew at debian:~$ ls -l /usr/bin | grep screen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113916 2006-11-24 12:44 gnome-screensaver
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9020 2006-11-24 12:44
gnome-screensaver-command
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44716 2006-11-24 12:44
gnome-screensaver-preferences
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6920 2006-09-05 09:26 screendump
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2006-11-17 21:05 xscreensaver ->
/usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2006-11-09 10:38 xscreensaver-demo
-> /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-preferences


hth,

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[tomw]

I remember seeing a post in the mepislovers forums about how to get kde screensavers working with xscreensaver. (KDE screensavers were broke for a while I think)

http://www.mepislovers.com/forums/index.php

The search function is broke on the forum so you'll have to use google

Or try this:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=kde+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mepislovers+xscreensaver&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Hope this helps

[Terry]

Post by tomw
I remember seeing a post in the mepislovers forums about how to get kde screensavers working with xscreensaver. (KDE screensavers were broke for a while I think)
http://www.mepislovers.com/forums/index.php
The search function is broke on the forum so you'll have to use google
http://www.google.ca/search?q=kde+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mepislovers+xscreensaver&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Hope this helps

That is interesting.

It presents me with a puzzle. I do not have an .xscreensaver folder.
When I make a change to xscreensaver settings, the change is remembered
but not, it seems, recorded anywhere in the .config folder.

What mysterious forces are at work here?

[Bob Snyder]

Post by Terry

Post by tomw
I remember seeing a post in the mepislovers forums about how to get kde screensavers working with xscreensaver. (KDE screensavers were broke for a while I think)
http://www.mepislovers.com/forums/index.php
The search function is broke on the forum so you'll have to use google
http://www.google.ca/search?q=kde+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mepislovers+xscreensaver&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Hope this helps

That is interesting.
It presents me with a puzzle. I do not have an .xscreensaver folder.
When I make a change to xscreensaver settings, the change is remembered
but not, it seems, recorded anywhere in the .config folder.
What mysterious forces are at work here?

It works for me, although I get an error from X in the upper left corner
of the root window, something about "Attempt to access private resource
denied"

A direct link to the wiki page:


http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Add_kde_screensavers_to_xscreensaver

Bob S.

[Paul Smith]

Post by Bob Snyder

Post by Terry

Post by tomw
I remember seeing a post in the mepislovers forums about how to get kde screensavers working with xscreensaver. (KDE screensavers were broke for a while I think)
http://www.mepislovers.com/forums/index.php
The search function is broke on the forum so you'll have to use google
http://www.google.ca/search?q=kde+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mepislovers+xscreensaver&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Hope this helps

That is interesting.
It presents me with a puzzle. I do not have an .xscreensaver folder.
When I make a change to xscreensaver settings, the change is remembered
but not, it seems, recorded anywhere in the .config folder.
What mysterious forces are at work here?

It works for me, although I get an error from X in the upper left corner
of the root window, something about "Attempt to access private resource
denied"
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Add_kde_screensavers_to_xscreensaver

I get here the same error. Has someone meanwhile found a workaround?

Paul

[Erik Harrison]

Post by Terry

Post by tomw
I remember seeing a post in the mepislovers forums about how to get kde screensavers working with xscreensaver. (KDE screensavers were broke for a while I think)
http://www.mepislovers.com/forums/index.php
The search function is broke on the forum so you'll have to use google
http://www.google.ca/search?q=kde+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mepislovers+xscreensaver&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Hope this helps

That is interesting.
It presents me with a puzzle. I do not have an .xscreensaver folder.
When I make a change to xscreensaver settings, the change is remembered
but not, it seems, recorded anywhere in the .config folder.

A .xscreensaver FILE. Not a folder, and not in .config. Unless
something's odd with PCLinuxOS

Post by Terry
What mysterious forces are at work here?
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