On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 14:54 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
--- Vincent Knecht vknecht@club-internet.fr wrote:
Le Vendredi 19 Août 2005 23:39, BRUCE STANLEY a écrit :
--- Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
--- Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
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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=false3). 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.