I love xscreensaver, but I find that too often (say 20% of the times) it fails to start a screensaver.
Normally the message is something like:
xscreensaver: unrecognized visual "any"
xscreensaver: blah blah process ID (process name) exited abnormally (code 1).
on a black screen.
Is it that I made a mistake configuring it?
It's a kubuntu breezy box.
Code:
$ dpkg -l xscreensaver*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Estado=No/Instalado/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: mayúsc.=malo)
||/ Nombre Versión Descripción
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii xscreensaver 4.21-4ubuntu17 Automatic screensaver for X
ii xscreensaver-data 4.21-4ubuntu17 data files to be shared among screensaver frontends
ii xscreensaver-gl 4.21-4ubuntu17 GL(Mesa) screen hacks for xscreensaver
un xscreensaver-gnome <ninguna> (no hay ninguna descripción disponible)
un xscreensaver-nognome <ninguna> (no hay ninguna descripción disponible)