I'm following this tutorial in the hope to fix the KDE Screensaver issue. The instruction for KDE is about 1/2 way down the page.
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html

Each time I boot up Fedora I have to consistently reset the screensaver. (not sure why that's happening)

For some reason (maybe the instruction is old?) Appearance & Themes are not in the KDE Control Module. General, Fonts and stylesheets are the only options. UNchecking "start automatically" doesn't exist.

I also looked in Screensaver under advanced preferences-
Not there either.

BTW, this machine is not mine to make this adjustment so that's one of the reasons I have asked for help.

Aside from following the instructions that don't apply to what I am working with; is there another way to set the screensaver permanently?

Thanks in advance-

When you say reset do you mean the timeout or type and or both? There may be some screen saver swapping thing that cycles thru them on a cron job but since I haven't played with FC20 yet it's just a guess.

Look at the config file timestamp. If you have to chattr +i the file and it won't be able to even as root.

as i recall for Gnome3 and kde
getting the gtk2 based xscreensaver custom settings to work requires making a custom config file for the ones you want

however it has been some time since i used them
if i leave the machine running and i am away i tend to be running a LONG running program that is using all the CPU cores or all the GPU cores and almost all the ram and swap

and i normally do not want the screen saver eating up cpu/gpu cycles with a 2 to 4 hour long run

By reset I mean I have to go to the Applications menu and select 'screensaver'.
Upon doing so, I get a message something like you do not have the screensaver set at this time do you want to set it? I say yes but at the next fresh boot up the screensaver has to be set again.

I can make a custom config file and maybe name it kde-screensaver and add the names of the screensavers to the file. The problem I have is the argument given in the instruction for the /usr/libexec/kde4/kscreenlocker file and understanding where it belongs.

At the end or at the beginning?
I went in circle's trying to learn how to make a file executable with chmod a+x.
I read the man pages for chmod and it still alluds me-
Is this the right way to run a file called 'xscreensaver' making it executable via the terminal?

I generally just run ./nameofile or use bash-

Chmod a+x means everyone can execute it and what's odd is I'd think that it should be that way by default.

Either way you are doing it properly by command line. I would use full path in your script though.

Thanks, I'll try to get it working tomorrow after I make a custom config file.
I know the names of the screensavers that I want should be in that file however, I'm not entirely sure what the arguments or strings should be.

If you could make a suggestion that would be great.

Unfortunately it's not by default. Agreed it should be.

I'll use /home/ztcoracat/sheena.sh

There is only one screensaver that I want to be used all of the time anyway.
Do you think that a boot time script would be better than creating a custom config file?

Installed CentOS last week and no longer running Fedora.