Since today I get a message from xscreensaver after login that it is quite old… But there is no newer version?
I have xscreensaver in autostart (xscreensaver -no-splash) because Plasma doesn’t provide screensavers anymore.
If there is no newer version - how can I get rid of the message without removing xscreensaver from autostart?
You can’t disable this warning without forking XScreensaver I guess. The author of XScreensaver built it in to avoid bug reports being reported against old versions.
I am not sure what the code does here. Maybe it has a timer in it which shows this message after a specific time has passed or it was started for an amount of times
I don’t like that either but it seems to work. Better would be the distributor would offer a newer package as indirectly proposed in the xscreensaver message (“If this is the latest version that your distro ships, then your distro is doing you a disservice.”). Maybe version 5.34 could be offered by netrunner in packages.netrunner.com as a fix?
Will this also work on a system still on Netrunner 16? I can update the system to 17 in May but I (resp. the person that’s using the machine) would like to get rid of the message as soon as possible.