Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem
James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 10:56, Dave Laird wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, David... On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:23 am, David Relson wrote: I discovered kdeartwork a while after posting my query. It is now loaded and I see a reasonable list of choices. However, when it's time for the screen saver to kick it all that happens is that the screen goes black. The screen returns to normal when I use the keyboard. Perhaps the issue is the Random screen saver, which is what I like to use. (Gnome has such a great selection of different screen savers). Using google, I found some mentions of non-working KDE screensavers. Is that still true? Are the ones for gnome compatible with kde? It sounds suspiciously as if you still have Power Control turned on. If you want to see the screen saver, in some cases, you must first make sure you have that unchecked, because *it* will blank the screen, before the screen saver kicks in, in some cases. Of course, your results may vary. 8-) If Dave and Greg are right and they may well be try this go to the screensaver page in kcontrol... they hit the test button... if the screensaver works there then it could well be power saver. If not... it may be selecting the Blank Screen screensaver. James It still should work!! Try to setup a smaller time for the screensaver to pop up than the time you setup for power saving to begin. This will answer your question whether this or that which starts first. David, you also can select various screensavers and may be run them randomly (I didn't experience that) by using xscreensaver. The Random screensaver you have originally in kcontrol is nothing but a black screen which of course isn't power saving. Mohand Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem
Hi, Did you install kdeartwork? All the screensavers which come with kde are in this package. You can even put your own pictures in the directory $HOME/.kde/kslideshow/pics and select Slide SHow during configuring your screensaver. Give it a try with running this program: kslideshow.kss good luck, Mohand David Relson wrote: Hi, I've been a gnome user for several years and have pretty much ignored kde. Recently I've read some positive reviews of kde that talked about the features, shared controls, etc. I decided to give it a try. Onto my Mandrake 9.0 system, I installed kde*-3.0.5a-1.1mdk. All seemed fine until the machine was idle for a while and the screen saver kicked in. It was boringly black. Not having configured the screensaver for kde, I found Screensaver settings in Desktop-Configure. All that's there is Blank Screen and Random and it seems Random doesn't work. Any suggestions as to the fix? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem
At 12:03 PM 3/9/03, M. Talanana wrote: Hi, Did you install kdeartwork? All the screensavers which come with kde are in this package. You can even put your own pictures in the directory $HOME/.kde/kslideshow/pics and select Slide SHow during configuring your screensaver. Give it a try with running this program: kslideshow.kss good luck, Mohand Hello Mohand, I discovered kdeartwork a while after posting my query. It is now loaded and I see a reasonable list of choices. However, when it's time for the screen saver to kick it all that happens is that the screen goes black. The screen returns to normal when I use the keyboard. Perhaps the issue is the Random screen saver, which is what I like to use. (Gnome has such a great selection of different screen savers). Using google, I found some mentions of non-working KDE screensavers. Is that still true? Are the ones for gnome compatible with kde? Thanks. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem
On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:23 pm, David Relson wrote: At 12:03 PM 3/9/03, M. Talanana wrote: Hi, Did you install kdeartwork? All the screensavers which come with kde are in this package. You can even put your own pictures in the directory $HOME/.kde/kslideshow/pics and select Slide SHow during configuring your screensaver. Give it a try with running this program: kslideshow.kss good luck, Mohand Hello Mohand, I discovered kdeartwork a while after posting my query. It is now loaded and I see a reasonable list of choices. However, when it's time for the screen saver to kick it all that happens is that the screen goes black. The screen returns to normal when I use the keyboard. Perhaps the issue is the Random screen saver, which is what I like to use. (Gnome has such a great selection of different screen savers). Using google, I found some mentions of non-working KDE screensavers. Is that still true? Are the ones for gnome compatible with kde? Thanks. David Sounds like the monitor is going into power saving mode. Check your power management settings in the KDE Control Center. It could be that the monitor is going into suspend at the same time interval as the screensaver. I believe the X-server can also control dpms settings, so you might want to look into that also. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, David... On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:23 am, David Relson wrote: I discovered kdeartwork a while after posting my query. It is now loaded and I see a reasonable list of choices. However, when it's time for the screen saver to kick it all that happens is that the screen goes black. The screen returns to normal when I use the keyboard. Perhaps the issue is the Random screen saver, which is what I like to use. (Gnome has such a great selection of different screen savers). Using google, I found some mentions of non-working KDE screensavers. Is that still true? Are the ones for gnome compatible with kde? It sounds suspiciously as if you still have Power Control turned on. If you want to see the screen saver, in some cases, you must first make sure you have that unchecked, because *it* will blank the screen, before the screen saver kicks in, in some cases. Of course, your results may vary. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html An automatic random thought For the Minute: Onward through the fog. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+a45YaE1ENZP1A28RAmAqAJ4jYK+d7Q3eW7PQte9kZuI9lHMSWwCgvdNo gVJkp42L9QZT0Vc/S2j0z6c= =Guxg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem
Dave Greg, You've both suggest green mode. That could be the problem. I hadn't known that KDE had a power save. Given _that_ information, I've now unchecked Enable Display Energy Saving. Thanks for the tip. We shall see what happens next :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 10:23, David Relson wrote: At 12:03 PM 3/9/03, M. Talanana wrote: Hi, Did you install kdeartwork? All the screensavers which come with kde are in this package. You can even put your own pictures in the directory $HOME/.kde/kslideshow/pics and select Slide SHow during configuring your screensaver. Give it a try with running this program: kslideshow.kss good luck, Mohand Hello Mohand, I discovered kdeartwork a while after posting my query. It is now loaded and I see a reasonable list of choices. However, when it's time for the screen saver to kick it all that happens is that the screen goes black. The screen returns to normal when I use the keyboard. Perhaps the issue is the Random screen saver, which is what I like to use. (Gnome has such a great selection of different screen savers). Using google, I found some mentions of non-working KDE screensavers. Is that still true? Are the ones for gnome compatible with kde? Thanks. David The blank is probably due to the fact that one of the screens in Random is Blank Screen However if you want a really beautiful one IMHO look for keuphoria on texstars site. BTW there is a heck of a battle going on in Cooker to make sure that kdeartwork is in the next release (I think the screensaver lovers will win!) James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 10:56, Dave Laird wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, David... On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:23 am, David Relson wrote: I discovered kdeartwork a while after posting my query. It is now loaded and I see a reasonable list of choices. However, when it's time for the screen saver to kick it all that happens is that the screen goes black. The screen returns to normal when I use the keyboard. Perhaps the issue is the Random screen saver, which is what I like to use. (Gnome has such a great selection of different screen savers). Using google, I found some mentions of non-working KDE screensavers. Is that still true? Are the ones for gnome compatible with kde? It sounds suspiciously as if you still have Power Control turned on. If you want to see the screen saver, in some cases, you must first make sure you have that unchecked, because *it* will blank the screen, before the screen saver kicks in, in some cases. Of course, your results may vary. 8-) If Dave and Greg are right and they may well be try this go to the screensaver page in kcontrol... they hit the test button... if the screensaver works there then it could well be power saver. If not... it may be selecting the Blank Screen screensaver. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
