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Lost Gnome screensaver

I lost my gnome screensavers even as root! On a fresh install of RedHat 8.0 they worked fine at first but after an up2date install of packages i get this message.

Quote:

There was an error starting up the screensaver:

Failed to execute child process "xscreensaver" (No such file or directory)

Screensaver functionality will not work in this session.

kde screensaver work fine!
Is there a fix for this?:(

can you run it from the command line

Im very new and i can't find anything like an executable! I ran a search what should I run!

Quote:

[root@localhost randall]# find / -name '*screensaver*'
/var/lib/menu/kde/Applications/Preferences/LookNFeel/kde-screensaver.desktop
/etc/pam.d/kscreensaver
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver
/etc/gconf/schemas/apps_gnome_settings_daemon_screensaver.schemas
/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_screensaver.la
/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_screensaver.so
/usr/lib/libkscreensaver.so.4
/usr/lib/libkscreensaver.la
/usr/lib/libkscreensaver.so
/usr/lib/libkscreensaver.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/nss_ldap-198/pam.d/xscreensaver
/usr/share/doc/pam_krb5-1.56/krb5afs-pam.d/xscreensaver
/usr/share/doc/pam_krb5-1.56/pam.d/xscreensaver
/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-ccscreensaver.png
/usr/share/applications/kde-screensaver.desktop
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/16x16/apps/gnome-ccscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/16x16/apps/kscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/16x16/apps/xscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/32x32/apps/gnome-ccscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/32x32/apps/kscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/32x32/apps/xscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/48x48/apps/gnome-ccscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/48x48/apps/kscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/48x48/apps/xscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Locolor/16x16/apps/kscreensaver.png
/usr/share/icons/Locolor/32x32/apps/kscreensaver.png
/usr/share/apps/kscreensaver

Thanks for helping!

just try this

Code:



xscreensaver

see if it runs

No it didn't sorry:(

Quote:

Failed to execute command: 'xscreensaver'

Details: No such file or directory

it is not in your path

you need to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path

you can do it in ~/.bash_profile

PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin

No luck :(
[randall@localhost /]$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin xscreensaver
bash: xscreensaver: command not found
[randall@localhost /]$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin 'xscreensaver'
bash: xscreensaver: command not found

[randall@localhost bin]$ xscreensaver
bash: xscreensaver: command not found
[randall@localhost bin]$ 'xscreensaver'
bash: xscreensaver: command not found

[randall@localhost bin]$ xscreensaver
bash: xscreensaver: command not found
[root@localhost bin]# 'xscreensaver'
bash: xscreensaver: command not found

[root@localhost bin]# xscreensaver
bash: xscreensaver: command not found
[root@localhost bin]# 'xscreensaver'
bash: xscreensaver: command not found

I do an ls -l and there is no executable in /usr/X11R6/bin
All other exe's work!
:(

it looks like it's not installed

Yes I kind of figured.

I assumed as much when I couldnt find an executable. Any idea on how to install on an upgraded RedHat 8.0? It was stange! The screensaver was working. I upgraged my Nvidia gforce2 kernel and installed GFX. then I ran RedHat up2date recompiled geforce kernel and BAM screensaver gone!:confused:

You should be able to find it at rpmfind.net

just installed this prob solved!
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html
Thanks for yor help David :D