[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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