Missing Screensavers in Fedora Core 4

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Written by Thomas Chung on 2005-05-15

If you go to Desktop > Preferences and open "Screensaver Preferences", you will notice the list of screensavers are missing.

See this screenshot.

Here is how you can install those missing screensavers:

[tchung@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install xscreensaver-extras xscreensaver-gl-extras
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package xscreensaver-gl-extras.i386 1:4.21-4 set to be updated
---> Package xscreensaver-extras.i386 1:4.21-4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 xscreensaver-extras     i386       1:4.21-4         base              2.9 M
 xscreensaver-gl-extras  i386       1:4.21-4         base              2.6 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 5.5 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): xscreensaver-gl-ex 100% |=========================| 2.6 MB    00:07
(2/2): xscreensaver-extra 100% |=========================| 2.9 MB    00:08
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: xscreensaver-extras          ######################### [1/2]
  Installing: xscreensaver-gl-extras       ######################### [2/2]

Installed: xscreensaver-extras.i386 1:4.21-4 xscreensaver-gl-extras.i386 1:4.21-4
Complete!
[tchung@localhost ~]$

Now here is the screenshot after the correction.

Here is a reason behind the missing screensavers: (Source: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-June/msg00583.html)

They are not installed by default because some are offensive and some
may crash a users system (gl screen savers mostly).  So we ship with
only one - blank screen.  You can however get xscreensaver-extras and
xscreensaver-gl-extras as someone else has pointed out.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>

Here is another reason: (Source http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-June/msg00594.html)

Also some of them use sections of the users screen for amusing effects. Thats
a nasty suprise that some people don't welcome when they are using "lock" mode.

--
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

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Source: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-June/msg00581.html