xscreensaver - Screen saver (191 last time I checked) and locker for X HOWTO

ChangeLog


Apr 27, 2006	- Fixed libiconv howto link
Oct 24, 2005	- 4.22 -> 4.23
		- Make sure all files are u+w after 'make install' is run
		- Instead of xscreensaver-*, look for old source in
		  xscreensaver-?.* (otherwise the source and the demos dir
		  will both be removed)
Sep 21, 2005	- 4.21 -> 4.22
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.2
		- Run chown -R root:root on the source when $UID = 0
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- electricsheep 2.5 -> 2.6.3
		- Added missing cleanup of old electricsheep source
		- Removed note about being unable to build XaoS, it worked
		  this time
		- XPlanet 1.1.2 -> 1.2.0
Mar 21, 2005	- 4.20 -> 4.21
		- Added note about installation directory changes
		- Use : instead of . for chown to seperate user and group
		  (that's going to be a tough habbit to break...)
		- Updated the path of the icon to /usr/share/pixmaps (instead
		  of the source dir)
		- Added gle prerequisite, which is required by some hacks like
		  extrusion
		- Added installation of XaoS, XDaliClock, XEarth, XFishTank,
		  XMountains, and XPlanet
Mar 20, 2005	- 4.19 -> 4.20
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
Feb 9, 2005	- 4.18 -> 4.19
		- Changed "X" prerequisite to "XFree86 or X.org"
		- Added grep, gettext, shadow, kerberos as
		  prerequisites
		- Added note about --with-setuid-hacks
		- Updated note about PAM
		- Removed all configure flags other than --prefix, it will
		  enable support for everything it finds, so no point in specifying it
Oct 21, 2004	- 4.16 -> 4.18
		- Added the version that comes with Slack 10.0
		- Removed the "Cosmos" hack/demo, the domain doesn't resolve
		- Fixed typo in building electricsheep (missing = between
		  LIBS and -lm)
		- Removed the "Fireflies" hack/demo, also doesn't resolve
June 3, 2004	- Fixed a typo in the xloadimage link
May 13, 2004	- 4.15 -> 4.16
		- Added installation of a few "hacks/demos" (at the bottom)
		  that don't come with xscreensaver
Mar 16, 2004	- 4.14 -> 4.15
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
Nov 12, 2003	- 4.13 -> 4.14
Sep 19, 2003	- First entry

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