--- Dave <wintermutecx at gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/18/05, Dave <wintermutecx at 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!