reducing distribution CD count

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Mer 2 mars 2005 11:41, Jamie Zawinski a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>
>> What would be helpful is some script that went through all the
>> screesavers
>> sequentially so it'd be easier to test what screensaver is failing.
>
> while true; do xscreensaver-command -next; sleep 10; done
>
>> Pretty often when that happens to me the screen goes to sleep after a
>> while and good luck finding what screensaver locked-up the box (yes I
>> know
>> I could do it manually - I just have other things to do than go through
>> the full FC screensaver list with mouse and keyboard)
>
> xscreensaver-command -exit
> xscreensaver -verbose >> LOG 2>&1
>
> Then after you've unwedged the box, check the log.

Thanks! I just knew something like this must be possible.
Shouldn't this be in a wiki somewhere? As other people noted, looping
through the gl screensavers is a pretty effective way to test driver
sanity.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot