Bug#1014782: xscreensaver: fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting

[Jamie Zawinski]

You are making this all needlessly complicated. Each distro should have exactly 
one xscreensaver package which contains exactly one app-defaults file, with 
whatever patches are necessary to that. Which should be "just about none", as 
configure should have figured out the correct settings for things like 
newLoginCommand.