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You know, I didn't read the manpage, and simply spouted off what I thought was right. Look in the "programs" section of the manpage for xscreensaver From the manpage: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To disable a program, you must mark it as disabled with a dash instead of removing it from the list. This is because the system-wide (app-defaults) and per-user (.xscreen saver) settings are merged together, and if a user just deletes an entry from their pro grams list, but that entry still exists in the system-wide list, then it will come back. However, if the user disables it, then their setting takes precedence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the FAQ: # * Some of these graphics demos suck. How do I edit out the ones I don't like? * Run the xscreensaver-demo http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man2.html program. On the left is a list of all of the demos. Each has a checkbox next to it. Un-check the ones you don't like. Only the ones that are checked will be automatically run by the xscreensaver daemon (though you can still run the others explicitly by double-clicking on them in the xscreensaver-demo window.) After you've run xscreensaver-demo once, you will have a .xscreensaver file in your home directory. You can also just edit that file directly: disable the ones you don't like by putting a minus (-) at the beginning of the line. The xscreensaver daemon will notice when the file has changed and reload it automatically. --------- If you want, you can edit .xscreensaver with pico, vi, emacs, Xemacs, joe, whatever and put the dash in manually. -- BMO