The XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System. It is highly customizable and allows the use of any program that can draw on the root window as a display mode. The purpose of XScreenSaver is to display pretty pictures on your screen when it is not in use, in keeping with the philosophy that unattended monitors should always be doing something interesting, just like they do in the movies. However, XScreenSaver can also be used as a screen locker, to prevent others from using your terminal while you are away.
Download (HTTP): http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-4.24.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/xscreensaver-4.24.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 174b6a7cebd892c1a6c2d56bf5ac5af6
Download size: 4.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 113.6 MB
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU
bc-1.06 and libglade-2.6.0 (alternatively LessTif-0.94.4 but not recommended)
libjpeg-6b, GLE, Netpbm, XDaliClock, Linux-PAM-0.99.4.0, MIT Kerberos V5-1.6 (built with Kerberos V4 backwards compatibility), and krb4 and Heimdal-0.7.2 (Kerberos authentication requires having Kerberos V4 and V5 on the system)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xscreensaver
Install XScreenSaver by running the following commands:
sed -i 's,\xc3\xb6,oe,' hacks/flow.man && ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
sed -i 's,\xc3\xb6,oe,' hacks/flow.man: This command replaces the UTF-8 encoded character “ö” with its ASCII equivalent “oe” in one of the installed manual pages. Without this, Man-DB would interpret these two bytes as ISO-8859-1, resulting in the wrong “ö” characters.
--with-setuid-hacks: This switch allows some demos to be installed setuid root which is needed in order to ping other hosts.
--enable-locking: This switch provides support for locking the display.
Last updated on 2007-01-21 01:12:16 -0600