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xscreensaver-demo has vanished
I've updated Xscreensaver to 5.45 (from 5.43 IIRC) & 'xscreensaver-demo',
which runs the interactive config screen, has vanished.
'man xscreensaver' says it's available,
but when I enter 'xscreensaver-command -demo', it says "xscreensaver-command:
could not exec xscreensaver-demo: No such file or directory" ;
'equery files xscreensaver | grep bin' confirms this
& it has disappeared from the KDE apps menu.

Xscreensaver is running (started by Xinit), as confirmed by 'htop',
& 'xscreensaver-command -activate' does bring up a screensaver as expected.

Here's the record of the emerge :

root:550 ~> eix xscreensaver
[I] x11-misc/xscreensaver
Available versions: 5.44-r4 5.45 {caps +gdk-pixbuf gdm +gtk jpeg +locking new-login offensive opengl pam +perl selinux suid systemd xinerama}
Installed versions: 5.45([2021-04-26 00:02:29])(gtk jpeg opengl -caps -gdk-pixbuf -gdm -locking -new-login -offensive -pam -perl -selinux -suid -systemd -xinerama)

Can anyone explain what has happened ?

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Re: xscreensaver-demo has vanished [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 06:13, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> Can anyone explain what has happened ?


Although this is set to disappear in the next version (not in gentoo
yet), it is still there for me in 5.45.

From the next version it will be called xscreensaver-settings.

I would try re-emerging the package and check the output.

Regards,
Arve