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glsideshow and xscreensaver

I am having trouble with slideshow screensavers.

If I run glslideshow in gnome screensaver it does not recognize the "picture" folder. Preview shows a blank white page.

Glslideshow.desktop does have an option for ImageDirectory.

Path to pictures folder is defined in .xscreensaver. (Never made sense to me, but that's the way it's done.)

I had to install xscreensaver in order to get .xscreensaver. I set the path in .xscreensaver and the gnome screensaver still does not recognize the "picture" folder.

If I run the slide show in xscreensaver I get errors warning about "constant subroutine Main:S_xxxx redefined at /usr/bin/xscreensaver-getimage-file line 38" plastered all over the image.

I read in one of the posts that this is a perl error. Nobody seems to be able to explain how to fix the problem without being a perl programer.

Any ideas of how I can run a slideshow screensaver?.

I looked up glslideshow in the expert-exchange database and only got two entries. I can't believe I am the only one with this problem.

Thanks in advance for your help

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Sorry I forgot to tell you I am running eeebuntu on a b202 ebox.

I solved the problem.

1. Turns out there is a bug in a perl script under xscreensaver. They keep saying it will be fixed in the next perl version.

2. I had the zoom in glslideshow.desktop set to 100 so that pictures would not pan. Turns out I missed the "-" in front of "zoom". looks like you also have to have all three (-pan, -fade and -zoom) to make it work properly with no panning.

Thanks for replying.