----- Original Message ----- From: "SÃren Neigaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 16:27 Subject: Re: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE
> You are not assuming too much, I am running KDE. > > My security level is standard. > > I tried the terminal thing, no success. > > When you say I should check permissions, what do you mean? What should > they be? Right now everything under /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver has: > -rwxr-xr-x > > Anything else I should try? > > Best regards > SÃren > > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 21:39, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Thursday 29 January 2004 1:14 pm, SÃren Neigaard wrote: > > > Tried both, did not help :( Wonder whats wrong, how can it work as > > > root?? > > > > > > Best regards > > > SÃren > > > > > Too weird. You have screen savers when you're logged in as root? Something you > > should never do under any circumstances BTW, at least not on a networked > > system. > > > > If they work as root but not as user then you'll definitely have to check > > permissions as someone previously suggested. What security level did you > > install at? > > > > Keep trying and meantime post your security level so the list knows whether > > you've actually restricted yourself out of the proper groups for such things. > > > > A final thought; instead of running as root open a terminal then, as super > > user, type: > > > > kcontrol [Enter] > > > > Set the screen savers, backgrounds, power control whatever, and then log out > > of the terminal, log out your user identity, then log back in. You may get > > lucky even if the permissions are set too high. This is all based on the > > assumption you're running KDE as your desktop manager. I hope I'm not > > assuming too much here. If so ignore me. > > > > Let the list know? > > > > Regards; > > Charlie > There is another permission level deffination -rwxr-xr-x root root probably I would change the second root to user and if necessary add your users to group user. I dont know the commands to do this however. Regards; Hoyt
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