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KScreensaver not activating

Carnildo

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Saturday, September 11th 2004, 4:04am

KScreensaver not activating

The screensaver won't activate properly. After the specified activation period, the screen will stop updating and if I move the mouse or press a key, the screen will refresh. It doesn't matter what screensaver I've selected.

I'm running KDE 3.3 (but the problem also happened under 3.2.3 and 3.2.2), XOrg 6.7.0. I've got an NVidia graphics card and the latest drivers.

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Saturday, September 11th 2004, 8:52am

The screensaver wrapper that KDE has made.. well, sucks big time. Use the dialog provided with xscreensaver. For more info:

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde
-- rm -fr /etc/whitehouse
-- Gentoo | udev | Xorg 6.8.2 | 2.6.14-r4 | KDE 3.5.0

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Wednesday, September 15th 2004, 9:53pm

Another solution is to launch an instance of xscreensaver at KDE login. Place the file into ~/.kde/Autostart. Don't forget to chmod it 0755.
-- rm -fr /etc/whitehouse
-- Gentoo | udev | Xorg 6.8.2 | 2.6.14-r4 | KDE 3.5.0