Re: missing screensavers in KDE

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:57:02 -0700
Siri Amrit Kaur <tigerflag@tigerflag.com> wrote:

> On Sat February 19 2005 18:51, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
>
> > > How do I find them in my system and make them available under KDE? I miss
> > > my bouncing cow!
> > >
> > > Siri Amrit
> >
> > Just run xscreensaver-demo to see all the choices. Don't worry, bossy's
> > there!
> >
> > Dennisk
>
> Hey, Dennis- you saw both my posts. That's how badly I want that silly cow
> back!
>
> I ran xscreensaver-demo and selected the bouncing cow. Great tip, that, but it
> didn't work. There's no option to save the choices. The only relevant choices
> are to restart the daemon or quit. If I choose to restart the daemon it
> crashes. If I choose Quit, it still reverts to the screensaver I chose under
> KDE- even though I disabled that one by unchecking the box to start it
> automatically.
>
> Any ideas how I can fix this? I must say, it wasn't this hard in the last
> version of Slack...
>
> Siri Amrit

Siri,

Don't know. Perhaps it's related to this bug I found by googling.

"A bug in xscreensaver existed when running under KDE. When selecting a screensaver, it can be tested and seen properly, but when it actually is supposed to start, only a black screen would come up."

dennisk
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