xjack displays this text: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. " It's possible that "Jack" would be replaced with name of user for which xscreensaver is running. Attached patch does it. It could be toggled via USE flag (for example "xjackuser"). Could it be included in portage?
Created attachment 56302 [details, diff] xjack-username.diff Patch for xjack.c
Created attachment 57910 [details, diff] xscreensaver-4.20.ebuild.patch Patch for ebuild.
Created attachment 57911 [details] xscreensaver-4.20-xjack-boy-girl.patch.bz2 Patch that adds two new hacks: xjack-boy and xjack-girl. xjack-boy displays "...${USER} a dull boy." and xjack-girl displays "...${USER} a dull girl.". Original xjack is also available.
Created attachment 57920 [details] xscreensaver-4.20.ebuild.patch Patch against xscreensaver-4.20.ebuild (from portage) - it has the patch in SRC_URI, not in files/
Upstream refused to include this patch: > Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: >> Hi. >> >> There's a bug reported about XScreenSaver at >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89134 . It adds two new hacks: >> xjack-girl and xjack-boy. Could it be possible to get it included with >> next release of XScreenSaver? > > Absolutely not, that's completely stupid. > > It's a *quote*. Customizing it is dumb.
Quote from IRC: <pYrania> we try to include every pkg as is, only patches that are really required are made <nelchael> ok
