Bug 19464 – fortune + xscreensaver

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Raimondo Giammanco 2003-04-17 03:30:16 UTC]

Hello,
 Having emerged fortune-mod after xscreensaver,
fortune is put in /usr/bin/fortune
while xscreensaver search for it in
/usr/games/fortune.

A link is sufficient to solve the problem.

Maybe a change to add in the ebuild?

R.G.

[Comment 1 Neil Watson 2003-04-17 13:51:59 UTC]

As long as fortune is in your path I don't see what the problem is.  You can't tell 
the particular screen saver where to find fortune aswell.   Can you be more 
specific about what the problem is? 

[Comment 2 Neil Watson 2003-04-17 13:53:13 UTC]

Sorry, that should read you CAN tell the screen savers where to find fortune in 
the settings. 

[Comment 3 Raimondo Giammanco 2003-04-18 02:40:45 UTC]

Hello,
  indeed it is possible to go to the settings of, say,
   phosphor and set manually the location of fortune in
   /usr/bin. However, phosphor is not the only
   screensaver using fortune: it can get tedious to
   go around the xscreensaver settings changing a bunch
   of files. I do not know why xscreensaver looks
   for fortune in /usr/games (incidentally, RedHat 7.0 had it
   there), but for making it work just out of the box, whithout
   putting links or changing preferences, it would be nice
   to write maybe a patch for having phosphor and similia
   look for fortune in /usr/bin as well.
 
   R.G.

   

 
  

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-04-18 02:51:51 UTC]

I'm inclined to agree with you on this.

[Comment 5 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-05-27 05:03:31 UTC]

this has been fixed now in the latest -r1