Re: [Cooker] Questions about xscreensaver

[Claudio Matsuoka]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Frederic Crozat wrote:

> xscreensaver is the default screensaver for GNOME. Unfortunately, it
> refuses to start when you are logged as root, preventing root to be able
> to lock its own workstation (stupid, isn't it..). This is why I added a
> dependency to xlockmore for this specific case.

Hmm. How do other distros handle this problem? It would be easy to write
a single-mode screensaver only for the root case, perhaps that could
solve the problem?


> Copyright issues, we tend to be very sensitive about this (did somebody
> said something about a magician in a comic book ;)

I understand. There's a lot more to remove then (see my previous email).