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nkw

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Registered: 2004-03-26

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Screen saver doesn't work

I am using KDE and already set the screen saver be run after 5 minutes, but it never run and the system never shutdown monitor too.

Any suggestion? Thanks.

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: Screen saver doesn't work

do you have xscreensaver installed?

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nkw

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Registered: 2004-03-26

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Re: Screen saver doesn't work

The commnad "pacman -Q|grep xscreen" cannot find xscreensaver. So it's not installed? Right click KDE desktop and "Configure Desktop" and then click "screen saver" will show a lot of screen savers, should I still need to install xscreensaver? ...

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: Screen saver doesn't work

The commnad "pacman -Q|grep xscreen" cannot find xscreensaver. So it's not installed? Right click KDE desktop and "Configure Desktop" and then click "screen saver" will show a lot of screen savers, should I still need to install xscreensaver? ...

yes, you need xscreensaver --- the kde list of screensavers is more or less a frontend to xscreensaver ... only some of them are really kde-screensavers

pacman -S xscreensaver

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nkw

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Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 80

Re: Screen saver doesn't work

thanks, after pacman xscreensaver, i can test the screen savers now, but it never automatically start - I set 5 minutes in KDE... Did I missed any steps?