How to change screen saver

[dcbpe]

Wow, thanks for all the input....

tapjpa....that file no longer exists on my Z, I had removed it previously.

greg2....I do have filemanager installed; I installed it when all you guys helped me load \"terminal\".  I looked up /usr/QtPalmtop.rom/pics and found both  \"logo-zaurus.png\" and \"Zaurus_logo.png\".  I viewed each and noted that \"Zaurus_logo.png\" is the screensaver image.  So.....

I copied “Zaurus_logo.png” to a new filename in /home/zaurus/Documents/Image_Files, just so that I still have the image.  I then used file manager to look for \"/home/QtPalmtop/Settings/qpe.conf\" as per raybert’s post….that folder does not appear on my Z.

I made note that the icon in filemanger for what I named “originalzlogo.png” was different than the “trekscreensaver.png” icon.  Lo and behold, I could not open “originalzlogo.png”.   I then went back into terminal (always in terminal as “su”) and went back to /usr/QtPalmtop.rom/pics.  I ran the command “cp Zaurus_logo.png Zaurus_logo1.png” and was given the error “cp: unable to open ‘Zaurus_logo1.png’: Read-only file system”

As it turns out, I can’t “cp” “rm” or “mv” Zaurus_logo.png.  Realizing that if I couldn’t run those commands on a read-only file I wouldn’t be able to overwrite it either, I tried that….and as I expected it did not work.  However, regardless of the error messages, I later noted that “Zaurus_logo.png” DID successfully copy to my “Documents” folder

Now, I have a meeting to go to and lunch is over……so I will give up for now.  I think later on tonight I’ll try that LUSScreensaver thing from home….though I really prefer doing things the hard way before using the easy tool.  I cannot load the site at work…it’s in Japanese and I can’t install the converters here.

Thanks again for the input….I’ll keep you all posted on what happens…….

[Computer_geek]

I\'ve gone through all the steps everyone has posted and discovered i don\'t have a bouncing \"Zaurus\" for a screen saver.  I have the date and time bouncing around.  

I opened logo-zaurus.png and it\'s a zaurus logo, so where is the date and time screensaver coming from?  

dcbpe, what part of Jersey are you from?

Thanks for all the posts... sorry the delay in response but i\'ve been away with work.

Linux is no joke to learn...

[Anonymous]

I\'ve managed to change my secondary boot screen, but I would like to change my primary/initial boot screen, in addition to my screensaver.  I\'ve looked at various bash web pages, so I\'ve found list after list of commands, but I don\'t know how to use them.  I enter stuff in terminal, but nothing ever happens (unless I get an \'error message\').  Who is going to do all the newbies a solid and write it out exactly as it needs to be entered into terminal so we can understand how to work with the information we\'ve found?

[Stubear]

If by promary/initial boot screen you are refering to the white screen with Sharp and a message in Japanese telling you to \"wait a while please\" then it can only be changed in the kernel.

There are a number of kernels around that disable the screen and show the normal linux boot up, but I haven\'t seen any that replace the initial screen with another (although it should be possible).

Stu