Screen Saver

[Ray Parrish]

Jim Smith wrote:
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>>>>> Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net>  said:
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>>>>> [remove gnome-screensaver]
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>>>>>> Not a bad idea, but I prefer to use Synaptic Package Manager to do 
>>>>>> things like that, which I just did, and now it shouldn't bother me 
>>>>>> anymore. Thanks for the idea.
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>>>>>> Later, Ray Parrish
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>>>>> I hope it works for you.
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>>>> It didn't, the damn thing still works, even 'though I removed 
>>>> gnome-screensaver with Synaptic. So... just how the hell do you get rid 
>>>> of the screen saver in Ubuntu?
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>>>> The thing that really irks me is that I never turned it on in the first 
>>>> place, all I did was review the available screen savers, and now it will 
>>>> NOT shut off.
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>>>> Later, Ray
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>>> im going to assume you tried this already, but here it is anyway....
>>> system> preferences> uncheck "activate screensaver when idle"
>>> i hate screensavers too, and its always worked for me. good luck.
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>> If you want to help, at least read the thread first... That setting has 
>> never been set to anything else. I never turned it on in the first 
>> place, all I did was open the Screen Saver dialog and preview the screen 
>> savers to see which are available. To try to get it to stop, I have even 
>> un-installed the package gnome-screensaver, and it still won't go away...
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> No one has asked this, so I will. Do you perchance have kscreensaver
> installed? If you have installed any KDE components such as K3B or
> Kstars you will also have installed other KDE core components to provide
> the supporting libraries. I have heard that kscreensaver can be
> installed with them. A vexing problem, I know, lets hope you can solve it.
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> Jim
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Well, to be on the safe side, I opened Synaptic, and searched on 
"screen" I don't have kscreensaver installed, but there are a couple of 
packages installed that go with it. Here they are with their descriptions.

> GL(Mesa) screen hacks for xscreensaver
> These are some extra hacks for xscreensaver that use the Mesa
> OpenGL-compatible library. They are included as an extra package so
> the base package doesn't require Mesa. In addition, these hacks function
> nicely as GL demos for people who want to try out hardware accelerated 3D
> with X.Org
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> This is the set of GL screensavers shipped by default. More GL 
> screensavers
> can be found in the xscreensaver-gl-extra package.

> data files to be shared among screensaver frontends
> This package contains the so called "hacks" (the single screensavers
> that get displayed from a screensaver app). It is split out to be used
> with programs like gnome-screensaver that bring no own hacks, but can
> display them. Additionally it contains the various tools to load text
> or images from external sources.
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> This is the selected set of non-GL screensavers shipped by default.
> More hacks can be found in the xscreensaver-data-extra package.

When I mark these for removal, they also want to remove 
ubuntu-desktop... Now I have done a previous search in Synaptic, and 
discovered that ubuntu-desktop isn't even installed on here, but I'm 
nervous about letting it try to remove it.

I think before I do that, I'm going to re-install gnome-screensaver, and 
then mark it for complete removal instead of just removal to see if that 
helps any.

Later, Ray Parrish


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