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05-03-2006, 07:57 PM
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Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Maine, USA
Distribution: OpenSUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, others
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Desktop distortions screensavers don't work right.
I was just looking at some of the screensavers I have installed. The desktop distortions section is particularly interesting, but they don't work right. When they run, they do not actually show the desktop, it shows some other image. How do you fix this?
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05-04-2006, 04:04 PM
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Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Laurel, MD, USA
Distribution: Slackware 10.1, FC5
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Go to the 'Advanced' tab of the screensaver properties. There should be a section labeled 'Image Manipulation'. Check the box in it labeled 'Grab Desktop Images'.
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05-04-2006, 04:09 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: S.F. Bay Area
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64
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Is this using xscreensaver?
Peace...
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05-04-2006, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by burntfuse
Go to the 'Advanced' tab of the screensaver properties. There should be a section labeled 'Image Manipulation'. Check the box in it labeled 'Grab Desktop Images'.
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I can't find any section that says 'Image Manipulation'. If it matters, I'm using KDE to manage this stuff.
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Originally Posted by tomdkat
Is this using xscreensaver?
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Yes, I'm using the xscreensaver package. There is one screensaver called 'Science' that does work. All the others just show some other background image. |
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05-04-2006, 06:04 PM
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Well, you can try running xscreensaver from the command line and get to its options and see what you can make out there.
$ xscreensaver
and the splash screen should appear with a button to access the options.
Peace...
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05-04-2006, 07:33 PM
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Thanks, that did it.
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05-04-2006, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by pdeman2
Thanks, that did it.
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You ran xscreensaver manually and adjusted the settings that way?
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05-04-2006, 08:58 PM
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Precisely.
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05-04-2006, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by pdeman2
Precisely.
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Absolutely? 
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05-04-2006, 09:28 PM
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Exactly.  |
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05-05-2006, 07:33 PM
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OK, now I have another issue. It's not a biggy (but neither was my first problem), but in Gnome these screensavers still don't work right.
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05-06-2006, 11:20 AM
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Location: Laurel, MD, USA
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Try the same thing there?
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05-06-2006, 12:46 PM
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Location: Maine, USA
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Yes, did the same thing.
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