Screen saver not working

[Michael Satterwhite]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:10, anthony baldwin wrote:
> Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> >On Thursday 25 January 2007 01:34, Donn wrote:
> >>>that it never starts. When I right click on the desktop, and go to
> >>>configure desktop->screen saver, it looks right.
> >>>What would cause it not to work?
> >>
> >>What saver is it? Perhaps its a GL thing and your 3d drivers are not
> >>working. Perhaps it's a dud saver. Hit the test button and see if the
> >> saver runs ok at all.
> >
> >Works fine on test.
>
> I find that, for some unknown reason, screensavers do not work
> automatically for me
> (neither in Fedora nor Kubuntu, on this same hardware, although, at one
> time they did...
> just stopped once and never worked again).
> However, if I lock session, they come on just fine, which has become my
> practice.
> Could you be experiencing the same phenomenon?  Try locking your session
> to check.

The screen saver begins immediately when the session is locked. It's the 
automatic starting that doesn't work.