No KDE Screensavers Available??

Spasmolytic · 04-15-2004, 03:03 PM

I have KDE 3.2.1 w/ Slackware 9.1

I have xscreensaver installed, but for some reason when I choose the screensaver tab in KDE's control panel no screensavers appear. Is anyone familiar w/ this problem??

Phorem · 04-15-2004, 03:48 PM

There isn't any?? Like nothing? You might still have to install the screen saver packages from the Slackware cd or download the appropriate package for kde 3.2.1 . And yes, this happended to me on my 32bit Slackware 9.1 and KDE 3.1 None of the GL screen savers would be there until i installed the packages for a screen saver and i had OpenGL turned on and installed.

Spasmolytic · 04-15-2004, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Phorem
There isn't any?? Like nothing? You might still have to install the screen saver packages from the Slackware cd or download the appropriate package for kde 3.2.1 . And yes, this happended to me on my 32bit Slackware 9.1 and KDE 3.1 None of the GL screen savers would be there until i installed the packages for a screen saver and i had OpenGL turned on and installed.

Yeah, there's nothing there

Is there a seperate package for integrating xscreensaver w/ KDE?? Because I can view all the screensavers w/ the xscreensaver command but nothing shows up in KDE (where I want it to be)

I just installed fireworks screensaver and it's not in there either, I can only view it w/ the kfiresaver3d command and can't config it

CBlue · 04-15-2004, 06:07 PM

Get kscreensaver and that should work. I know that kde 3.2, at least, has a program called kscreensaver.

Spasmolytic · 04-15-2004, 09:11 PM

kscreensaver is supposed to be included w/ kdebase or kdeartwork, i tried installing an old version of kscreensaver but I still can't see anything... strange

CBlue · 04-16-2004, 05:43 AM

Do you try installing just apt-get install kscreensaver? You can get the latest kscreensaver by doing that. If it says you have the latest already, then see if you have the latest kcontrol, kdesktop, kdeaddons, kde-core, kdebase-bin, kdelibs and kdeutils. You could be missing a package needed for the screensaver to work.

Spasmolytic · 05-02-2004, 06:04 PM

What's apt-get? Does that work in Slackware?

Anyway, for a followup to my problem... It's still not fixed. The screensavers show up fine if I try running the control panel as root, but not as normal users... do you think it could be a permissions issue? To add extra weirdness to this problem, I can run xscreensaver-demo as normal user

CBlue · 05-03-2004, 02:30 AM

Sorry, Spasmolytic, use whatever package installer that slackware uses to get kscreensaver installed.

kenewton · 11-08-2004, 10:44 PM

I'm having the same problem using KDE 3.3. Yesterday all the screen savers were available, today they're not. If I log in as root, their available, but when I log in as a regular user I get a blank list. Was this problem ever resolved?

x94qvi · 01-14-2006, 06:23 PM

I seem to be having the same problem that KENEWTON described above... That is, when I log in as root, and start KDE under root, the screensavers (the ones under kscreensaver) will always start after the specified time period without any problems. But when I start KDE while logged in as anoter end-user, any screensaver I choose under kscreensaver never appears to launch after the time period.

I'm using Slackware 10.2, and have KDE 3.5.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this?

Notwerk · 01-14-2006, 08:30 PM

If the screensavers are accessible as root but not as a regular user, I'd start by checking .xscreensaver in the home directory. This file should:
1) Be There! (if it's not there something is wrong with your install)
2) Start with a comment that says it was created by xscreensaver-demo for $USER on $DATE (try to change the settings in the GUI as a regular user and see if the date in the comment changes)

Post your findings so we can continue if needed.

x94qvi · 01-14-2006, 11:30 PM

Thanks very much for the offer to help, Notwek.

Here's my findings:

1) The .xscreensaver file was located in the home directory. I did not have to create it, as it was already there.

2) While in KDE as a regular user, I right clicked on the desktop, and chose "configure", then changed the screensaver to start automatically from 1 minute to 4 minutes, then clicked the APPLY button. This did not affect the date/time-stamp in the header of the .xscreensaver file at all - i.e. it has an older timestamp than expected. As well I noticed the "timeout" entry in the file reads "2", which is wrong - it should now say "4"

So, what do you recommend next?

Notwerk · 01-14-2006, 11:51 PM

When you login does xscreensaver start as a process owned by your user account?

You can verify this by logging into KDE then running the following in a terminal:

Code:

$ps aux | grep xscreensaver

it should list info about the xscreensaver process(es?)

Note the username associated with it, and any arguments (e.g. -nosplash) and psot them back.

x94qvi · 01-15-2006, 01:48 AM

I did as you suggested, and here's the result:

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
rob 3059 0.0 0.1 1976 748 pts/1 R+ 02:39 0:00 grep xscreensaver

Even though I'm a newbie, it would appear that the only command it's picking up is the grep screensaver command that I'm issuing, and nothing else.

Notwerk · 01-15-2006, 02:03 AM

You're right, it's exactly as you said.

Try to run "xscreensaver-demo" from a shell as a regular user. It should display the "configure" screen for the xscreensaver. Are the themes listed there?

Looking back over the previous posts i see that you were trying to run kscreensaver (not xscreensaver). My mistake!!! unfortunately, i'm not familiar with kscreensaver but I think it's still an experimental package so I'd advice you to check that all dependencies are installed (especially kscreensaver-xsavers) and check the list of known bugs.

http://packages.debian.org/experimen...e/kscreensaver

Sorry I couldn't help you more