Fixed: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE

[Søren Neigaard]

Hi all

Ok I found one difference from root to my normal user. My normal user
had this dir wit all the .desktop stuff in:

.kde/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers

And root did not, so I tried removing this dir from my normal user, and
kawaam all the screensavers are there and they work :D

Well just wanted to inform you so you dont spend more time on it, and if
any other has had the same problem :)

Thanks for all the good help, now I also learned to feel safe with the
mandrake update tool.

Best regards
Sren

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 19:35, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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 Friday 30 January 2004 12:15 am, Sren Neigaard wrote:
  On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 00:33, Charlie Mahan wrote:
   Thursday 29 January 2004 3:27 pm, Sren Neigaard wrote:
You are not assuming too much, I am running KDE.
   
My security level is standard.
   
I tried the terminal thing, no success.
  
   That's a fairly broad statement. Do you mean that you couldn't open the
   KDE Control Centre that way, that you had no screen savers to choose
   from, or that it didn't help?
 
  Sorry about that. Yes the control center worked fine as root, and all
  screensavers was there, but when I tried as normal user again, it was
  the same, no screenservers.
 
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
  
   Yeah OK, but the configuration files aren't in /usr/X11R6 they're in
   /etc/X11.
 
  Ok can you tell me which ti check maybe? It seems they are all either
  -rwxr-xr-x or -rw-r--r-- (root root).
 
 That's not what rw-r--r-- means Sren. read write-read--read for root, group, 
 user. Let's not worry about that yet. Open a terminal and as your user 
 identity try:
 
 xscreensaver-demo
 
 Follow the bouncing configuration dialogues and holler if you get stuck, OK?
 
 I hope this helps.
 
 Charlie
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Re: Fixed: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE

[Charlie Mahan]

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Friday 30 January 2004 3:39 pm, Sren Neigaard wrote:
 Hi all

 Ok I found one difference from root to my normal user. My normal user
 had this dir wit all the .desktop stuff in:

 .kde/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers

 And root did not, so I tried removing this dir from my normal user, and
 kawaam all the screensavers are there and they work :D

 Well just wanted to inform you so you dont spend more time on it, and if
 any other has had the same problem :)

 Thanks for all the good help, now I also learned to feel safe with the
 mandrake update tool.

 Best regards
 Sren

Perfect! This kind of 'keep hunting until you track down a solution' (in 
GNU/Linux there's always more than one) is exactly what is needed. It's also 
why almost every reply of mine included Keep trying. Thanks for the 
Solved message. That doesn't happen often enough in my opinion.

You get it now; completely I would think. Welcome to Open Source. Again. 

Now you just have to keep passing it on. g

Warm regards;
Charlie
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