mandrake 9.2 no screen savers?
 

I have no screen savers listed in the ScreenSaver control panel under KDE???

There are screen savers in the /usr/share/applnk/ScreenSavers :confused:

any ideas??? btw.. I also installed reallyslick screen savers from source.. and they are in the ScreenSaver directory as well.. but none show up either??

thanks:trey

I have the same problem. They -were- there, but it doesn't seem to be picking them up any more. Where can you set the screensaver dir?

ttt

The default is listed int he KDE help file.. I do not know how to change it.. anyone else know?

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Open a terminal and use 'su -' to become root. _Go to /usr/share with 'cd
/usr/share'. _Issue the command 'ln -s ./applnk-mdk/.hidden
./applnk-mdk.hidden' (one line). _Now see if there's any screensavers to
choose from. _This helped me (although I only got a list of four
screensavers in KDE), but one guy on irc said it didn't work for him, so
your mileage my vary.

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I found tons of SSavers
 

Maybe I was in Gnome, but I was in awe of the number of screensavers
available, compared to other overpriced OSs.

Look around, they're in there!

Regards,
Al :study:

There is a bugfix in the MD download area for users who can't get screensavers to work.

heloo

the command of ZipLed works fine with me , thanks for that ZipLet !
But there are only 3 (and not the greatest) screensavers ,,,,--

now a question : some screensavers i found from the mandrake cd's (xscreensaver) are executable bin files , which after copying to the directory are not recognized by mandrake's KDE screensaverconfiguration .
How do i make them that way ?

i don't know , something like *.desktop or *.kdelnk ?:study:

sweet.. i will give that a shot.

Zip, didnnt work for me.. :( Glad it worked for pomelo though!

thanks:trey

Howdy, rrsc ...

For those of us new around here, could you point us to where ".. the MD download area .." is?

I'm having the same (among others) issue with screensavers not showing. Tried ZL's suggestion and no dice for me either.

Thanks a bunch!! :)

You have to install package "kdeartwork" to have all the screensavers.

After installing I went into Control Centre-Software Management-Mandrake Update and there was a buxfix whose description said it was to help people who couldn't get screensavers.

I see there is a new fix tonight called 'popt' that is supposed to fix the menu problems, I think.

again thx zipled

--> those ".bin" xscreensavers are for working under gnome i found out....

Tried this on my desktop machine today and it worked like a charm. Then tried it on my laptop and do go. Both have the same packages installed as far as I know. And the update file was downloaded and installed on both machines. What gives? Any ideas?

in fact I don't even have a /usr/share/applnk/Screensavers directory

What package installs them?

A combination of Post 4 and Post 10 did it for me after the Mandrake screensaver patch did not fix the problem. Was the artwork required even for the patch to work?