Comment 1 for bug 278941

Just figured out that changing my images directory in xscreensaver-demo to another path, then putting back the original path got it to rescan the directory and find the new files I had copied in. It must scan the directory once and cache the values somewhere? I don't see any kind of cache file in my home directory.

Now it is rotating between the five images in the directory, except... it shows the same image twice, every time. So it'll be a sequence like: 4, 4, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, ...

This is incredibly frustrating to try to work with. I'm not even sure I'm looking at the right config file, but it appears that this stuff lives in ~/.xscreensaver. That file says duration and pan are both 10, with fade as 2. I've tried many, many combinations of values and it still has this behavior of showing each image twice before switching to the next one.

This seems like an INCREDIBLY simple concept and I'm blown away how completely wrong it is. It would be better if this screensaver option didn't exist in Kubuntu, given how aggravating it is to use.