New Screensaver

piscesboy

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Mar 15, 2006, 6:26:55 PM3/15/06

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I downloaded a new screensaver. It's an .exe file which folder do I put
it it to get it to work?

EOS

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Mar 15, 2006, 6:29:51 PM3/15/06

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piscesboy wrote:

> I downloaded a new screensaver. It's an .exe file which folder do I put
> it it to get it to work?

.exe is not for linux !
you can run the exe trough an emulator (wine)
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scooter

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Mar 15, 2006, 6:36:56 PM3/15/06

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piscesboy wrote:

> I downloaded a new screensaver. It's an .exe file which folder do I put
> it it to get it to work?

.exe=windows, .rpm, deb, tar, .gz, etc...=linux

piscesboy

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Mar 15, 2006, 6:45:53 PM3/15/06

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Yea, my mistake. But If it were a tar or gz file, which folder do I
place it in?

Chuck

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Mar 16, 2006, 1:16:21 AM3/16/06

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Well I guess you would unpack it and place it in
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/

piscesboy

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Mar 16, 2006, 6:26:40 AM3/16/06

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Would if there was such a directory. But there apparently isn't in my
Suse 10 distro.

Daniel :-}

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Mar 17, 2006, 1:25:17 AM3/17/06

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"piscesboy" <oracl...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1142447215....@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

>I downloaded a new screensaver. It's an .exe file which folder do I put
> it it to get it to work?
>

Here's where it goes in SuSE 10.0.

/opt/kde3/share/applnk/system/ScreenSavers

Daniel :-}

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PerfectReign

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Mar 17, 2006, 4:00:13 AM3/17/06

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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:26:40 -0800, piscesboy took a five-minute break
from flipping burgers to boot the etch-a-sketch and scribble out:

Yes you do.

You have to be root to see it. Change to root by doing SU and then change
to that folder

cd /usr/lib/xscreensaver

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Ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss
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Oder kann man ihn nur vom Totenbett holen

scooter

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Mar 17, 2006, 4:19:47 AM3/17/06

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PerfectReign wrote:

>>> >> piscesboy wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> > I downloaded a new screensaver. It's an .exe file which folder do I
>>> >> > put it it to get it to work?
>>> >>
>>> >> .exe=windows, .rpm, deb, tar, .gz, etc...=linux
>>> >
>>> > Yea, my mistake. But If it were a tar or gz file, which folder do I
>>> > place it in?
>>> >
>>> Well I guess you would unpack it and place it in
>>> /usr/lib/xscreensaver/
>>
>> Would if there was such a directory. But there apparently isn't in my
>> Suse 10 distro.
>
> Yes you do.
>
> You have to be root to see it. Change to root by doing SU and then change
> to that folder
>
> cd /usr/lib/xscreensaver
>

I'm not sure you need to be root to see it, I opened Konqueror, Opened show
terminal emulator typed in cd /usr/lib/xscreensaver and there it was. Also
saw it in Konqueror's directory tree as a normal user w/o terminal. Also
see it in Nautilus 2.12.0 without being root.

piscesboy

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Mar 17, 2006, 11:01:30 PM3/17/06

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PerfectReign wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:26:40 -0800, piscesboy took a five-minute break
> from flipping burgers to boot the etch-a-sketch and scribble out:
>
> >
> > Chuck wrote:
> >> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:45:53 -0800, piscesboy wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > scooter wrote:
> >> >> piscesboy wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > I downloaded a new screensaver. It's an .exe file which folder do I put
> >> >> > it it to get it to work?
> >> >>
> >> >> .exe=windows, .rpm, deb, tar, .gz, etc...=linux
> >> >
> >> > Yea, my mistake. But If it were a tar or gz file, which folder do I
> >> > place it in?
> >> >
> >> Well I guess you would unpack it and place it in
> >> /usr/lib/xscreensaver/
> >
> > Would if there was such a directory. But there apparently isn't in my
> > Suse 10 distro.
>
> Yes you do.
>

This says I don't:

linux:/home/ct # cd /usr/lib/xscreensaver
bash: cd: /usr/lib/xscreensaver: No such file or directory
linux:/home/ct #

I logged in as myself and as root.