configure screensaver

Homer fsunoles at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 15:45:08 UTC 2007


On 2/14/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Donn wrote:
>
> >> I want to remove one particular screensaver as it seems to lock up my
> >> machine from time-to-time.  I once knew a command that would allow a
> >> person to activate or deactivate each screen saver, but I can't find
> >> it.  Anyone know what I'm describing?
> > No idea -- I had a look around with the idea of finding a text file
> > listing
> > them or something, but I can't find anything really.  No commands either.
> > I'll watch this one too.
>
> Me too!  I like to use the "random" screensaver, but occasionally all I get
> is a "not configured" message.  It would be nice to be able to turn that
> one off.

The command I was looking for is xscreensaver-demo.  I am running 6.06
LTS and xscreensaver was not installed.  I installed it but whatever
KDE is using for screen savers won't let xscreensaver take over.
That's my layman's description.




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