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Amphaeon

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 72

installed screensavers wont work

hello everyone again. im running kdemod on arch 32bit and im experimenting with this kde that ive never used before... im an old gnome user just trying something new.... well ive installed some new screensavers " pacman -S rss-glx" and they show in my control panel for the screensaver but i cant test them and they dont show anything when i wait for the screensaver to pop up.... any suggestions?

F

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Registered: 2006-10-09

Posts: 322

Re: installed screensavers wont work

try running xscreensaver-demo.

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: installed screensavers wont work

I don't think that KDEmod utilizes xscreensaver at all. KDE and therefore KDEmod have their own implementation of Screensavers.

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Rumor

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From: Albany, NY

Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 638

Re: installed screensavers wont work

I've installed the rss-glx package too. I'm running Gnome, so it may be different in KDE. When you run 'pacman -S rss-glx' you get a message telling you to run 'rss-glx_install.pl' as your user before you can use the screensavers.

That makes them accessible and previewable / usable in Gnome. Don't know if it would work or is necessary in KDE.

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mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: installed screensavers wont work

IIRC, Gnome uses a system directly derived from xscreensaver and can hence use the same modules. I still doubt that KDE does that. Can anyone confirm that?

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aythun

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Registered: 2007-05-04

Posts: 11

Re: installed screensavers wont work

KDE just uses an (inferior) xscreensaver wrapper, so it shares the same screensavers.

mac57

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From: St. Somewhere

Registered: 2006-01-06

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Re: installed screensavers wont work

Just a silly thought. Make sure that you have Screen Power Management enabled and then each of the subfields for blanking the screen, spinning down the disk etc. disabled. If not, I find that the screen saver never runs - instead the screen just blanks out. I had set "DPMS" to "False" in xorg.conf, but found that I had to also ENABLE power management in KDE and then DISABLE each of its sub functions in order to get the desired result.

I don't know if this might help you, but I thought I might mention it.

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Amphaeon

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 72

Re: installed screensavers wont work

nothing is working that has been sugested. and i can find the actualy RSS and it will run but i cant set it up in my screensaver config, it shows, but it wont test or run from the screen saver config... i tried running 'rss-glx_install.pl' and that didnt help.