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Trying to have xscreensaver load my images, I am getting error:

xscreensaver-getimage: file does not exist: "~/wallpapers/angels-phonebox.png"

No amount of changing file names, user permissions, etc seems to be effecting this. However, it is obviously seeing that that image (and the others in the directory) ARE there; they should be working.

Answer: don’t use a tilde ~ in your file path

Local is already presumed, so just setting wallpapers as the directory, rather than “~/wallpapers”, did the trick. Now to figure out my lock screen…