Adding back Skyrocket screensaver to Xubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
Mon, 12/24/2012 - 09:07 — mdlueck
I knew how to add my favorite screensaver, Skyrocket, to Xubuntu based on having researched it before: http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/Adding_back_Skyrocket_screen_saver_to_Ub... However this time, the Really Slick Screensavers GLX Port entries did not show up in the list of screensavers. So I went searching how to get them to become available.
I discovered in this file:
/usr/share/doc/rss-glx/README.xscreensaver
that I should perform the following:
$ ps aux|grep xscreensaver
mdlueck 4290 0.0 0.0 64156 2944 ? S Dec23 0:00 xscreensaver -nosplash
mdlueck 5114 0.0 0.0 13608 928 pts/2 S+ 08:00 0:00 grep --color=auto xscreensaver
$ kill 4290
$ /usr/bin/rss-glx_install
mdlueck 4290 0.0 0.0 64156 2944 ? S Dec23 0:00 xscreensaver -nosplash
mdlueck 5114 0.0 0.0 13608 928 pts/2 S+ 08:00 0:00 grep --color=auto xscreensaver
$ kill 4290
$ /usr/bin/rss-glx_install
Then when entering the screensaver configuration panel, I am warned that xscreensaver is currently not running, would I like to start it, (yes), and Skyrocket is in the list of screensavers.
