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I have no screen savers listed in the ScreenSaver control panel under KDE???
There are screen savers in the /usr/share/applnk/ScreenSavers
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??
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.
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 ?
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 ?
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.
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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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?
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?
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Glad it worked for pomelo though!
