Gnome Screensaver slide show [SOLVED]

rharvey@cox · Last edited by rharvey@cox on Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

How do I set up a slide show with the Gnome Screensaver?

Gnome Screensaver comes with a slide show "Cosmos", but I cannot find where that is kept in the file system. I'd like to use my own slide show.

Thanks.
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yabbadabbadont · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject:

Wait. Let me get this straight. You actually want to be able to configure a Gnome screensaver? Previous Gnome devs are rolling in their graves... :lol:

Sorry, couldn't resist. You might try digging through the registry... I mean your gconf settings (

) to see if you can find anything relating to the screensavers. If it exists anywhere, it would be there.

Edit: As you can probably tell, the inability to configure gnome screensavers is a pet peeve of mine.

rharvey@cox · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject:

I appreciate your sense of humor!

Thanks for the tip.
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yabbadabbadont · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:29 am Post subject:

Well, turns out that you can't change it...

I found the answer here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

It says that the slideshow screensaver looks for pictures in ~/Pictures, so I guess that if you create said directory and throw some images in there, they will be used.

Edit: note that all of your images must be in the ~/Pictures directory. You can't have subdirectories in there... however, I would guess that you could create symbolic links in ~/Pictures that point to your images that may be in various other directories and it would work. That would be a lot of manual work to setup though. This all reminds me why I don't use Gnome. (I just stick with either fluxbox or openbox)

You could probably remove gnome-screensaver and replace it with the old xscreensaver. Then you would have proper configuration options.

Skip.za · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:35 am Post subject:

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

The inability to configure gnome-screensaver only suggests one solution. Burn and destroy it.... Sorry but making a program limited in use and unconfigurable is digging its grave.

Anyone using gnome using another screensaver program, gone back to xscreensaver?
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 888 Location: Germany

Alternatively to condemning Gnome and its devx you could also make a folder in your home directory called Pictures (capital P is important) and put the Photos you want to be displayed in there. Actually putting links there should suffice, but I didn't try it.
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rharvey@cox · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:08 pm Post subject:

That did it!

Thanks a mil!
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