Re: [OCLUG-Tech] script to automate setting of screensaver

2013-03-25 Thread Stephen Gregory
On 24/03/13 06:00 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: Has anyone used a script to set the screensaver rather than the interactive GUI? Which desktop environment are you using? My XFCE system saves the settings in ~/.xscreensaver. (Where diety intended the settings to be.) If you don't have that f

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] script to automate setting of screensaver

2013-03-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
So I re-read your request and I got it wrong. The settings you seek should be accessible via gconf-editor / gconftool / gconftool-2, but I cannot seem to find the screensaver fields on my system. Maybe you'll have better luck. You can try this... $ gconftool-2 -R / | grep saver and then f

[OCLUG-Tech] script to automate setting of screensaver

2013-03-24 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
Has anyone used a script to set the screensaver rather than the interactive GUI? I'm using Mint, but other pointers welcome. I'm looking into a script to set up new machines e.g., when I visit colleagues and can have a VM, that would have the components and settings I like, and it would be nice