Screen Saver

[Ray Parrish]

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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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Later, Ray Parrish
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That didn't work either. I even re-booted after complete removal, and 
still the damn thing runs.

I will now take the plunge, and get rid of the two packages that contain 
extra screen saver modules [which want to remove ubuntu-desktop] and see 
if that does any good.

Later, Ray Parrish

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