Re: xscreensaver PLIST errors

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 10:02 +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> Yesterday night I tested it again. It's very strange - If I run one of
> the simple - even not OpenGL - screensaver, like anemone, with
> '-root', IT does not actually show anything on screen. even if I think
> it is working - a ktruss shows the expected sequence, similar to it
> being invoked in a window (which works as normal). It is as if the
> root window where it is supposed to display to is created under the
> current window manager (the test was done under the latest available
> in pkgsrc MATE).

So here you're using xscreensaver with MATE, rather than mate-
screensaver? (Nothing wrong with that, just clarifying, because I
haven't tested that particular combination. I use xscreensaver with
everything except MATE.)

Regards,

Dave