Comments on: Ubuntu GLSlideShow Screen Saver http://www.computechgroup.com/?p=328 Information Warehouse Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:36:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Joel http://www.computechgroup.com/?p=328&cpage=1#comment-25764 Joel Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:27:41 +0000 http://www.computechgroup.com/?p=328#comment-25764 The easiest way is to use the "Pictures folder" screen saver. This screen saver looks for a directory in your home directory called "Pictures". Whatever pictures are in that folder will be displayed in the screen saver. You mentioned overcoming the root problem. The command, sudo, overcomes that. Put sudo before any command and it will allow you to run the command as the root user. When prompted for the password just enter your own password. For example, to edit the file listed above you would enter this at the terminal: sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/screensavers/glslideshow.desktop The easiest way is to use the “Pictures folder” screen saver. This screen saver looks for a directory in your home directory called “Pictures”. Whatever pictures are in that folder will be displayed in the screen saver.

You mentioned overcoming the root problem. The command, sudo, overcomes that. Put sudo before any command and it will allow you to run the command as the root user. When prompted for the password just enter your own password. For example, to edit the file listed above you would enter this at the terminal:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/screensavers/glslideshow.desktop

]]> By: Jim McDonald http://www.computechgroup.com/?p=328&cpage=1#comment-25761 Jim McDonald Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:59:26 +0000 http://www.computechgroup.com/?p=328#comment-25761 I need to add pictures to a folder for a screen saver slide show. This above discription does not seem to be complete. Please tell me how to do it. I don't know how to use the terminal to overcome the root problem. You mentioned nothing about the terminal. Jim I need to add pictures to a folder for a screen saver slide show. This above discription does not seem to be complete. Please tell me how to do it. I don’t know how to use the terminal to overcome the root problem. You mentioned nothing about the terminal.
Jim

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