egork's Journal: make the electric sheep the default screensaver in kde4

Re: ElectricSheep, can't find xv, another process running, terminated
Hi. The best solution is to remove your current version of electricsheep:
Code:

sudo apt-get remove electricsheep

And then you can use this script and run
Code:

sudo sh install-electricsheep-package.sh

This will install a new version of electric sheep from a PPA on lauchpad.

Credits to spotspot:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=826554
http://community.electricsheep.org/node/271

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=950771&highlight=electricsheep/

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html

USING KDE
        KDE also has invented their own screen saver framework instead of simply using xscreensaver. To replace the KDE screen saver with xscreensaver, do the following:

                1: Turn off KDE's screen saver.
                          Open the ``Control Center'' and select the ``Appearance & Themes / Screensaver'' page. Un-check ``Start Automatically''.

                2: Find your Autostart directory.
                          Open the ``System Administration -> Paths'' page, and see what your ``Autostart path'' is set to: it will probably be ~/.kde/Autostart/ or something similar.

                3: Make xscreensaver be an Autostart program.
                          Create a .desktop file in your autostart directory called xscreensaver.desktop that contains the following five lines:

                            [Desktop Entry]
                            Exec=xscreensaver
                            Name=XScreenSaver
                            Type=Application
                            X-KDE-StartupNotify=false

                4: Make the various "lock session" buttons call xscreensaver.
                          Replace the file kdesktop_lock or krunner_lock in /usr/bin/ (or possibly /usr/kde/3.5/bin/ or /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/) with these two lines:

                            #!/bin/sh
                            xscreensaver-command -lock

                Make sure the file is executable (chmod a+x).

        Now use xscreensaver normally, controlling it via the usual xscreensaver-demo (1) and xscreensaver-command (1) mechanisms.