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Episode: 558
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Title: HPR0558: xscreensaver
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0558/hpr0558.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 23:02:00
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Ken Falla, and today's episode is on installing
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XScreensaver on KDE4.
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I didn't know I needed to install XScreensaver on KDE4 until I went looking for the blue screen
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of XScreensaver, which I knew existed.
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I also knew some other screen savers existed, and I wanted the ability to install KDE4
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for some reason comes with a very limited set.
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They're quite nice, all right, but not a relatively limited set of screen savers.
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As I searched, I found out that the blue screen of that screen saver was located in XScreensaver
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dash data, that dash extras, and when I looked in there, I could even find an XML file
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under user share XScreensaver config blue screen of that BSOD.xml.
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But for some reason, it wasn't appearing in the KDE option for configuring screen savers.
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So eventually I came across, youngness and bitch is still less to believe, yeah, I'm
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mining the kids here, so they've been very good and very quiet, so I'm just going to record
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a show in between.
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So I came across this how-to on the XScreensaver, and I'll basically read a little portion of
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it.
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KDE also has invented the rune screen saver framework, instead of simply using XScreensaver.
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And it goes into a rant of why that's a bad thing.
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So basically turns out that the KDE screen savers doesn't support XScreensaver.
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They give you a quick little how-to on how to disable the current screen saver and start
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the other one.
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Now what I did was, I went into control center, and then under display screen savers, I unchecked
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start automatically.
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And then I went to, let me see, look at it, blah, blah, blah, yeah, so I disabled that,
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and then I located auto start in my home directory, so I founded in.kde auto start, and then
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I created a desktop entry using vi, vi space.kde, forward slash capital A uto strt, forward
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slash xscreensaver.desktop.
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And in there, there's entry desktop entry, exact equal xscreensaver name, equal xscreensaver,
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type equals application, xkde start up notify equals false.
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This of course will be in the show notes.
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And then one last thing I had to do was place the xdesktop underscore lock, or krunner underscore
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lock, or kscreensaver lock for a script that we'll call xscreensaver dash command dash
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lock.
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So when you press the lock button to lock the keyboard, it will call the xscreensaver
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one, as opposed to the kde build in one.
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And I did a locate on all those three options, and I came up with a file called user lib
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kde4 lib extras case screensaver locker.
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So I backed that up, and I edited a new file.
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I edited that file to include hash bash, forward slash bin sh, xscreensaver dash command,
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space dash lock.
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And then I changed mod minus x, that file name, and then all of a sudden I was done.
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One thing that was a bit funny was that xscreensaver dash command was missing.
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And as it turns out, I didn't have xscreensaver installed, despite having xscreensaver dash
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data dash extras installed.
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So I had to go to the trouble of installing xscreensaver, and I installed that and just
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had some recommended packages, you know, if you're buying a Tlar, buying a Tlar, can
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you be just still?
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Thank you, Will.
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Okay, I did a pseudo-appget install xscreensaver xli, space x load image, space blah, blah, blah,
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lobby in the show notes for this episode.
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And then lo and behold, it was installed and it worked as if by magic.
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And there was much amusement environment as I walked away from my desk, running Linux
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to having a blue screen of death for Windows 2003 server on my screen, caused much
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merriment.
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However, one interesting fact was when I did reboot my machine, it asked me if I wanted
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to run the old start program, and I needed to confirm that, that was something I needed
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to do.
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And I think that is absolutely excellent.
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And with that, I'll like to thank my children, young as you've here, who you've done for
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being quiet during this episode.
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And if you would like to record an episode, if you've got five minutes when the kids are
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quiet, or whatever, why don't you do that?
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It would be great if we all look forward to hearing some more shows on the HBR network,
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time to get more shows on, start recording shows.
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Okay, bye.
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