Oh, frabjous day?<\/p>\n
Not quite<\/i>. The password screen, when leaving the screensaver, leaves a bit to be desired.<\/p>\n
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It’s fine. The light gray theme doesn’t excite me, but there are some other options to choose from, like Aqua Black (a black and blue scheme) and Wine (a reddish scheme).<\/p>\n
I had reason to look in the \/etc\/X11\/app-defaults folder, and I saw that XScreenSaver had a file there that defined a number of program defaults that I could adjust by adding the necessary code to my .Xresources file. “Can I adjust the password window to make it consistent with the Mint-Y-Dark-Teal theme?”<\/p>\n
And, with about twenty minutes of experimentation, I could! I could also adjust the way the time and date were presented in that window.<\/p>\n
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Here’s what the code I added to .Xresources looks like:<\/p>\n
That code overwrites the default color scheme, so leaving XScreenSaver on default will give me Mint-Y-Dark-Teal colors instead of the default light grays.<\/p>\n To adjust the date and time, I added this line:<\/p>\n It’s just the standard Linux time notation<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can’t get rid of the logo. I tried. XScreenSaver specifies width and height defaults, and I thought overwriting both with 0 would do the trick. Alas, alack, and many alurums, my friends, it did not.<\/p>\n Still, I have something that looks better, than is not as stark as the default or any of the options. It looks like it belongs<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who doesn’t love a good screensaver? I’ve been a fan of 3D Pipes going all the back to Windows 95, and I hypothetically might possibly have hacked my computer at Diamond using a Linux live USB to put 3D Pipes onto that Windows 10 machine. Possibly. I can neither confirm or deny. On Linux Mint,Continue reading “Customizing XScreenSaver”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[4860,5146,5334],"class_list":["post-34909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-linux-mint-debian-edition","tag-xscreensaver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}XScreenSaver*default.Dialog.foreground: #f0f0f0
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\nXScreenSaver*default.Dialog.internalPadding: 24<\/code><\/p>\nXScreenSaver*dateFormat: %l:%M:%S %p %m\/%d\/%Y<\/code><\/p>\n