Screensaver issues on KDE
Hey guys, I seem to be having a little trouble with my screensaver. I'm running KDE on Slackware. When I go to the screensaver configuration screen, there's an option to 'Test' the screensaver. When I click Test, the screensaver displays correctly and prompts for a password input when the screensaver is interrupted by clicking.
When the screensaver runs on it's own.. I just get a blank screen instead of the selected screensaver being displayed. When I click, I'm still prompted for a password and i'm able to log back in without problems, the screensaver is just never displayed. Why would the 'test' work, but the real deal wouldn't? P.S. The matrix screen saver is SWEET! |
I have never been completely happy with the way the KDE implementation of xscreensaver works. So, I ensure that xscreensaver is disabled in the KDE Control Canter and that the Slackware package for xscreensaver is installed. Then I do the following:
In /home/bill/.kde/Autostart/ I place a file named xscreensaver.desktop. This file should contain the lines: Code:
[Desktop Entry] |
the faq on xscreensaver site
addresses how poor kde is |
I had this problem in FreeBSD and adding "DPMS-dependent=false" in the screensaver section of ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc solved the problem. No need to use xscreensaver.
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oh i knew that this would be too good to be true =)
i have the same problem bur DPMS-dependent=false" is already in this file - i have a feeling mine has to do with APM though as i have a laptop and it seems to blank the screen rather than run the screen saver - i have setting 'make aware of power management' in KDE turned off as well... |
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Screw KDE. I'm using Gnome now and I like it much better. Screensavers along with everything else work beautifully.
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Screensaver issues on KDE
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Anyway, argghhh, I was disappointed to see that the kde-3.5.4 upgrade on my Slackware -current box didn't actually solve the problem. I decided to, once and for all, figure this damn thing out and I came to this thread. The above solution worked a dream. Saaaweeeeet! Thanks reddazz! LocoMojo |
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Searching the forum, I found the hints about adding "DPMS-dependent=false" in the screensaver section of ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc, but that didn't help. I then downloaded the xscreensaver package & installed that. As soon as I did that, the normal KDE screensavers started working without any problems. I didn't even try to run the xscreensaver program. The only thng I can think of is that when I upgraded to 3.5.4, a link/dependancy didn't get updated correctly & installing xscreensaver fixed that as part of its own install. Hope this is of help to somebody else if they get a similar problem. |
Odd quirk.....
The DPMS-dependent=false didn't work for me, I'm using kde 3.5.4 btw. However if I go into kde's control center, and enable the powermanagment option, under Control Center>Peripherals>Display, the screen saver will work. If I disable this option, it just goes back to going blank when the screensaver launches.
I thought it to be an odd quirk, I'll poke around some source code, am not a very accomplished programmer, but hey, it can't hurt to look. Hopefully this solution will help a few ppl, am using FreeBSD 6.1. Chylde |
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