[CentOS] Re: KDE screensaver on Centos 4.1
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sun Aug 21 21:57:16 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 14:54 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
>
> --- Vincent Knecht <vknecht at club-internet.fr> wrote:
>
> > Le Vendredi 19 Août 2005 23:39, BRUCE STANLEY a écrit :
> > > --- Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > > > BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> > > > > --- Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > > > >>BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > > Where can I pick up the new rpms from?
> > > > > I don't use yum at home due to slow dial up line.
> > > > > I burn them on CD here at work and then I do
> > > > > rpm installs.....living on the edge I guess ... :-)
> > > >
> > > > There are no fixed "stock" RHEL packages that I'm aware of. If you
> > > > using packages from kde-redhat, ours are fixed. (-:
> > > >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps using kde-redhat is not mandatory to fix screensaver behaviour.
> >
> > >
> > > What is the link to the kde-rehat server?
> > >
> > > What would be the mininum rpm files that I would need
> > > to update kdeartwork?
> > >
> > > Would I need to update kdelibs and kdebase also?
> >
> > Here's the list of kde packages installed on my machine:
> > kdepim-3.3.1-2.1
> > kdemultimedia-3.3.1-2
> > kde-i18n-French-3.3.1-2.1
> > kdeadmin-3.3.1-2
> > kdeutils-3.3.1-2
> > kdelibs-3.3.1-3.11
> > kdeaddons-3.3.1-2
> > kdenetwork-3.3.1-2.3
> > kdegraphics-3.3.1-3.4
> > kdebase-3.3.1-5.5
> > kdeartwork-3.3.1-2
> >
> > Bruce, I guess you should check if you're up-to-date with regular CentOS
> > update repository, update if you are not, then check if you still suffer
> > screensaver issue.
> >
> >
>
> I found a work-around that allows most of the screen savers to
> work. Some of the GL savers are still a little slugish or buggy.
>
> I installed the latest KDE updates in the Centos 4.1 update repository
> but that did not solve the problem.
>
> I ran man xscreensaver and found out a way to run xscreensaver that
> bypasses KDE and this got around the problem.
>
>
> I did the following:
>
> 1). ran control-center and turned screensavers off in KDE.
>
> 2). created a file named xscreensaver.desktop and placed it
> in by ~.kde/Autostart directory.
>
> The file contains the following lines:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Exec=xscreensaver
> Name=XScreensaver
> Type=Application
> X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
>
> 3). then I created a program launcher on my desktop that runs
> xscreensaver-demo when I want to change to different screen savers.
>
>
> Now xscreensaver startups when I login and my screen savers work!
>
> Rex has a set of RPMs from redhad-kde that also fix the problem.
> I wonder if Rex could make them available on the Centos 4.1 updates
> repository?
> _______________________________________________
Need to be fixed in RHEL-4 before they will be be fixed in CentOS-4.
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