How to change text size in gtext screensaver?

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Had Ubuntu 8.04 installed and was pretty happy with it using KDE (3.5 i think) then upgraded to 8.10 which also upgraded KDE to 4.1 automatically. I don't really like this new KDE so i've switched back to the gnome interface.

The analogue clock screensaver in KDE is perfect for me but it seems there is no way of using it within the gnome environment so the next best screensaver with a clock i could find was by editing the gtext screensaver as per the following instructions:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gnome-screensaver/+spec/clockscreensaver

1. execute command in terminal "sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/screensavers/glsimplyclock.desktop"
2. add content
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=GLSimplyClock
Comment=Displays a few lines of text spinning around in a solid 3D font. Written by Jamie Zawinski.
TryExec=gltext
Exec=gltext -root -text "%X" -wireframe -no-spin
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Screensaver

1) Is there any way of changing the font size of the numbers here?

2) Has anyone found an analogue clock screensaver that works in gnome or knows how to get the KDE analogue clock screensaver working under gnome?

:)
 
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