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And at least OpenSuSE and Slackware just patched the warning out already -- probably after getting hit by it in the past.

See for example the patch in Slackware: https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware-current/s...

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Oh wow, I didn't expect that from Slackware... I hadn't noticed that the message is gone, I guess. I can't help but to think it is kind of rude to keep using xscreensaver but not honor the request of its author. It's purely the principle of the thing because I agree that the message is ugly. That's not in true Slackware spirit imho (in the sense that this is a less-than-necessary patch). I am a little bit disappointed. :(

Yes, the nag text was removed, but at least xscreensaver gets updates, which was the whole point.

> patches/packages/xscreensaver-5.34-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. I promised jwz that I'd keep this updated in -stable when I removed (against his wishes) the nag screen that complains if a year has passed since that version was released. So, here's the latest one.

Personally I don't get the point of screesavers at all, since we have monitors that can be sent sleep/standby mode when they're not used.

it is a lock screen that prompts for password on wake

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html

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