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Not sure why but the latest xscreensaver package no longer includes the
xscreensaver-demo executable afaict?
xscreensaver seems to be missing xscreensaver-demo
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- Christine Lemmer-Webber
- Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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- Christine Lemmer-Webber
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(name . Christine Lemmer-Webber)(address . cwebber@dustycloud.org)(address . 54385-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hi Christine,
Note that the name of this tool has changed upstream[0], but we're still
on an older version for now. Building it:
Warning: GTK version 2.24.33 was found, but at least one supporting
library (gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0) was not, so GTK can't be
used.
Perhaps some of the development packages are not installed?
Warning: The GTK libraries do not seem to be available; the
`xscreensaver-demo' program requires them.
Where gdk-pixbuf-xlib is of course ‘a deprecated library’ and ‘[n]o
newly written code should ever use this library’ so that'll be fun to
maintain the coming years.
Our gdk-pixbuf package still mentions gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0.pc in an
obsolete comment but doesn't actually install it.
Oh:
NEWS: - Split the gdk-pixbuf-xlib library to a separate repository
The repository is archived and read-only:
Oh that is going to be *super* fun to maintain.
At this point I'd usually go ahead and package the beast, but I don't
use xscreensaver. How important is this binary? (-demo sounds
unimportant, -settings very, but it's presumably the same thing.)
In any case an update to xscreensaver would seem prudent first.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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(name . Tobias Geerinckx-Rice)(address . me@tobias.gr)(address . 54385@debbugs.gnu.org)
877d8v2xvt.fsf@dustycloud.org
xscreensaver-demo makes it sound fairly unimportant, but -demo is how
you launch the configuration GUI and select screensavers, turn on
settings like when to lock, etc. For example, in XFCE, I went to click
on the menus to select "screensaver" and it said xscreensaver-demo was
missing. I imagine this could be confusing. It confused me.
Looks like we're not the only ones hitting this issue:
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
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> Hi Christine,
>
> Note that the name of this tool has changed upstream[0], but we're
> still on an older version for now. Building it:
>
> Warning: GTK version 2.24.33 was found, but at least one supporting
> library (gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0) was not, so GTK can't be
> used.
> Perhaps some of the development packages are not installed?
>
> Warning: The GTK libraries do not seem to be available; the
> `xscreensaver-demo' program requires them.
>
> Where gdk-pixbuf-xlib is of course ‘a deprecated library’ and ‘[n]o
> newly written code should ever use this library’ so that'll be fun to
> maintain the coming years.
>
> Our gdk-pixbuf package still mentions gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0.pc in an
> obsolete comment but doesn't actually install it.
>
> Oh:
>
> NEWS: - Split the gdk-pixbuf-xlib library to a separate repository
>
> The repository is archived and read-only:
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gdk-pixbuf-xlib
>
> Oh that is going to be *super* fun to maintain.
>
> At this point I'd usually go ahead and package the beast, but I don't
> use xscreensaver. How important is this binary? (-demo sounds
> unimportant, -settings very, but it's presumably the same thing.)
>
> In any case an update to xscreensaver would seem prudent first.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
>
> Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
>
> [0]: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html
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