From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011014 Description of problem: The xmountains RPM that Red Hat distributes was not built with -DVROOT. This means that it does not work with xscreensaver: instead, it just draws on the root window. You should recompile it with vritual-root support so that it works as a screen saver too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "xmountains -b -M -Z 0 -r 1" via xscreensaver 2. 3. Additional info: xmountains-2.5-5 Name : xmountains Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.5 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 5 Build Date: Mon 20 Nov 2000 07:31:18 PM PST Install date: Sat 15 Dec 2001 08:46:33 PM PST Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Group : Amusements/Graphics Source RPM: xmountains-2.5-5.src.rpm Size : 41293 License: free copyrighted software Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~spb/xmountains/ Summary : An X Window System based fractal terrain generator.
It's fixed in 2.6-1. You find it ftp://people.redhat.com/than/7.1