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13. I'm running KDE, and it's ignoring my changes, or all the modes aren't listed, or it's behaving weird in some other random way. What gives?
Instead of using the usual xscreensaver mechanisms, the KDE folks have chosen to roll their own screen saver wrapper that is inferior to the xscreensaver-demo way of doing things in any number of ways.
The only sensible (and secure) way to use a screen saver under KDE is to turn off KDE's built-in screen saver, and use xscreensaver instead. How you go about this is explained in the ``Using KDE'' section of the xscreensaver manual.
The GNOME people used to have the same class of bugs as the KDE folks now have, but the GNOME crew finally came to their senses, and we worked together to come up with a solution that resulted in their being one and only one xscreensaver configurator, instead of two: mine and theirs.
Will the KDE people wise up and do the same? Only time will tell. I encourage you to encourage them.
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Originally posted by ayqazi
Look, using existing solutions reduces workload, is less buggy and is more standard. That's the point I'm making. And is more secure, according to the xscreensaver FAQ question I just posted. I'm just posting something I think would make KDE even better.
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