Since I can't seem to find enough time to post lengthy messages about my most recent nerdity, I've decided just to post snippets of whatever I'm working on. All my computers, bar one now run Gentoo, and the other one's days are numbered, so I guess that'll be the default flavour of the posts. For the most part, I'm just going to document each hurdle I come to, and how I've got past it, so that when I forget it, I have it recorded somewhere.
So today: Xscreensaver, the default screensaver for the X windows system. It does just about everything you would want, not that screensavers are all that critical.
Install:
emerge x11-misc/xscreensaver
The only issue I've found is that if you have Xfce4.1 like me, there is no icon placed in the menus to control it's behaviour, and as pretty as some of the screensavers are, they can suck the battery life of your laptop right down. So to get into the preferences:
/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -prefs
That's it. Not rocket science, huh?
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