On Sun, April 8, 2018 6:54 am, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently moving all our local school's desktop clients from > Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7 + Xfce. Right now I'm fine-tuning the default > user profile. This is a big change, so it must be prompted by substantial reason. Would you mind share it: what about slackware was that bad to prompt it. Thanks a lot for your insights! Valeri > > I have a problem with XScreenSaver. The application per se works very > well. Only there's a hard-coded pop-up window that reminds the user that > he's not running the latest version. So, if I'm running version 5.36 as > provided by the EPEL repo and not the latest and greatest 5.38 as > provided upstream, I get a pestering pop-up window informing me that > YOUR VERSION OF XSCREENSAVER IS VERY OLD. This functionality is > apparently hard-coded, since there's no way to deactivating it. > > The Slackware distribution seems to have solved the problem by promising > upstream to keep things up-to-date. > > For the moment I simply work without it, because I'm annoyed by my users > phoning me and asking me what's this thing with their screensaver being > too old. > > As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem. > > 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date. > > 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get the annoying popup. > > 3. Maintain my own up-to-date version of XScreenSaver in my private repo. > > Any thoughts about this? > > Cheers, > > Niki > -- > Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables > 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat > Site : https://www.microlinux.fr > Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr > Mail : info at microlinux.fr > Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++