removing obscene screen savers?

Somehow obscene screen saver pictures have gotten on to my
system. I'm running Fedora Core 3 and the screen savers
come up randomly and about every fifth day I get an eye
full. I tried to find the offending files, but have not
found them yet. Can anyone tell me where and what to look
for? Or can someone point me to documentation on screen
savers?

Jim Anderson

Jim Anderson <ezjab@ieee.org> writes:

> Somehow obscene screen saver pictures have gotten on to my
> system. I'm running Fedora Core 3 and the screen savers
> come up randomly and about every fifth day I get an eye
> full. I tried to find the offending files, but have not
> found them yet. Can anyone tell me where and what to look
> for? Or can someone point me to documentation on screen
> savers?

I can't seem to find it on the documentation of my current xscreensaver
installation, on Fedora Core 4, but do seem to recall that some of the
screen saver modes, that manipulate images, could grab images from the
web. Try running xscreensaver-demo (or look in the appropriate kde or
gnome control panel with screensaver options) for an option to get images
from the web.

-- HASM

HASM,

Thank you for the suggestion. I have at least set my
screen saver to a fixed choice. I kind of like the
random screen savers popping up, so I'm hoping to
eventually weed out the pornography.

Regards,
Jim

HASM wrote:
> Jim Anderson <ezjab@ieee.org> writes:
>
>
>>Somehow obscene screen saver pictures have gotten on to my
>>system. I'm running Fedora Core 3 and the screen savers
>>come up randomly and about every fifth day I get an eye
>>full. I tried to find the offending files, but have not
>>found them yet. Can anyone tell me where and what to look
>>for? Or can someone point me to documentation on screen
>>savers?
>
>
> I can't seem to find it on the documentation of my current xscreensaver
> installation, on Fedora Core 4, but do seem to recall that some of the
> screen saver modes, that manipulate images, could grab images from the
> web. Try running xscreensaver-demo (or look in the appropriate kde or
> gnome control panel with screensaver options) for an option to get images
> from the web.
>
> -- HASM
>

Jim Anderson wrote:

> Thank you for the suggestion. I have at least set my
> screen saver to a fixed choice. I kind of like the
> random screen savers popping up, so I'm hoping to
> eventually weed out the pornography.

Jim, over the years, I've collected various images from art, fractal &
photography NGs & sites. If you've got the disk space to do that, you can
still get the variety, but use images you want.

Bill K