--- Dave wintermutecx@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/18/05, Dave wintermutecx@gmail.com wrote:
Come to think of it, I changed my SS from slideview to Matrix a couple weeks back and it ended up just blanking the screen. I didnt give it much thought back then. I'll try anohter one and see what happens.
PS: I was on FC2 and copied over my home directory so its not a new CentOS4 account.
Looks like some work and some dont here. In FC I only used slideshow and on occasion Matrix. Now matrix no longer works and some others.
Here are the errors I got. X error in xmatrix: X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes) Resource id in failed request: 0x7 Serial number of failed request: 701 Current serial number in output stream: 702 SetGrabKeysState - enabled
X error in bsod: X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes) Resource id in failed request: 0x7 Serial number of failed request: 702 Current serial number in output stream: 703 SetGrabKeysState - enabled
HTH
Hi Dave! Don't know if you caught my last post on this so just in case I'll re-post it here. In a nutshell, I bypassed KDE for running Screen savers.
From prior post:
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!