Random screensaver is always the same one

I'll confirm this, but it is only in the gnome-screensaver-preferences for me.

Do you still get the bug?

I don't think so, but it's so old I can't really recall. I'm running
Ubuntu on a number of machines.

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> ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
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This is still a problem in Gutsy for me.

It is there in hardy for me too. Is there a way to include the other screensavers in the Random pick list?

I've been meaning to look into it for ages, but I've never got round to it.

look, this is a really ugly bug, and its been around for years, why the heck wasnt it fixed by now if people knew about it since 2 years ago, possibly longer?!!

look, with obvious bugs like this, it discourages people from using ubuntu, cause they think its flaud when they boot it up and they can immediately see these.

someone PLEASE FINALLY PUT AN END TO THIS BUG!!! it seems like it could be so easy to fix, to! this is ridiculous!

Developers only fix bugs they think are important. This one is pretty pathetic really. I'm sure otther OSes have unfixed flaws much worse than this.

If it's easy to fix, do it yourself. That's the beauty of having the source.

Strangely, no-one ever thought that reporting this upstream would be a good idea.

well, i would, but i havent programmed in a while, and although i do plan to get back into it for the porpose of helping with ubuntu, im not a programmer as of now, so, in the meantime, ill just report bugs. hopefully, i will be programming soon.

btw, bruce, r u a programmer? i would much appreciate it if u fixed it.

Yes, but I can't make head nor tail of gnome-screensaver. I'll try at some point in the future though.

why wasnt this fixed yet in gnome 2.24?????

this is a gnome bug, not specific to ubuntu. also, its not specific to xylap either. when selecting random screensaver, it always selects the very last one, whichever it may be. it just so happens to be xylap as the last one, and so it picks xylap every time. so, it's an extremely simple problem, it might have even been caused by a typo when writing the code

fixed upstream, thanks for reporting.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-screensaver - 2.27.0-0ubuntu1

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gnome-screensaver (2.27.0-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release: (LP: #345107)
    - Add an autostart file for gnome-screensaver (#585485)
    - Updated Translations
    - Fixed audit GError usage (William Jon McCann)
    - Fixed use g_strerror (William Jon McCann)
    - Fixed logout_command setting may be overwritten with
      keyboard_command value (William Jon McCann)
    - Fixed gnome-screensaver-gl-helper calls gdk_x11_visual_get_xvisual
      with NULL visual (William Jon McCann)
    - Fixed Screenserver (William Jon McCann)
    - Remove power notice signal
    - Rely on GNOME session idle detection
    - Proxy g-s inhibitors over to the session
    - Read status message from session
    - Accept a full path for theme (Matthias Clasen)
    - Fix pixmap leak (Matthias Clasen)
    - Fix dialog border width
    - Add bevel around dialog
    - get idle time from xorg (LP: #230749)
    - screensavers-personal-slideshow should not show hidden directories (Jörg)
    - "Random" preview is always the last saver (Maxim Ermilov) (LP: #53575)
    - Calls wrong slideshow binary if there is one installed in
      $PATH (Frederic Crozat)
    - libgnome-desktop:gnome_bg_create_pixmap() leaks pixmaps and X
      clients (Scott Remnant)
    - Preview of "Blank screen" is not consistent (Neil Patel) (LP: #105836)
    - Add GTK and GNOME to screensaver desktop (William Jon McCann)
    - Screensaver suddenly stopped working (William Jon McCann)
    - gnome-screensaver-dialog NULL pointer crash (William Jon McCann)
    - gnome-screensaver should release mouse/keyboard when failed to grab both of
      them (Joey Yu Zheng)
    - Cleaning up GTK Includes in gnome-screensaver (Maxim Ermilov)
  * debian/control.in:
    - add Vcs-Bzr tag
    - re-generate debian/control
  * Adapt debian/watch to get unstable version
  * debian/patches:
    - remove 06_dont-leak-root-windows.patch and
      07_fix_blank_screen_preview.patch as applied upstream
    - removed 08_watch-all-X-screens-when-detecting-idle.patch as upstream
      handled the issue in rewriting src/gs-watcher-x11.c (multiple X handling)

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:59:32 +0200