Screen Saver

[Ray Parrish]

Luke Militello wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
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>> steve wrote:
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>>> Ray Parrish wrote:
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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... 
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>>> well im going to suggest you walk away from the computer for a while,
>>> its obvious by your tone you have had more than enough for one day.
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>>> were all here to help, it was only a suggestion.
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>> Actually, I'm pretty calm, it just burns me when people like you jump in 
>> and make really stupid suggestions before reading the whole thread first 
>> to see what has already been tried.
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>> I've been using computers for over 20 years, and I'm smart enough to try 
>> telling the program not to start first, yet you assumed I was just some 
>> idiot that didn't know how to run a computer, and gave your idiotic 
>> suggestion that I uncheck the box that starts the screensaver. duuuhhhh.....
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>> Later, Ray Parrish
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> Try this...not sure if it will work or not.
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> cd ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-screensaver/
> mv %gconf.xml %gconf.xml.bak
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> Log out then log back in and see what happens.
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Nice suggestion, but since I used Synaptic Package Manager to completely 
remove gnome-screensaver, and every other screensaver related package on 
my system, that file doesn't exist anymore. Thanks for trying to help. I 
have rebooted after doing the removals, and for some mad reason my 
screen still blanks after ten minutes.

There are no longer any screen saver related files on this system... and 
incident to their removal ubuntu-desktop and rss-glx have also been 
removed. I'm not sure what rss-glx is for, but I'm going to research 
that and see if I need to re-install it so some other package isn't now 
broken that depends on it.

I now give up... let the damn thing blank every ten minutes. But I am 
going to rant about it! I have never ran across a problem like this with 
a computer before. If the first place I didn't even tell the screen 
saver to start! All I did was use the screen saver dialog to preview the 
available screen savers, and it decided on it's own to start blanking 
the screen. I have tried setting the timeout value to 120 minutes so it 
wouldn't come on for a really long time, and that didn't work, still 
every ten minutes... Now with all of the screen saver packages removed 
completely it still starts... how is doing that if the software has been 
removed?

I've always thought that the computer should respond to the commands you 
give it, and do what you want, not decide to do what it seems to want. 
Maybe the Linux programmers have finally solved the artificial 
intelligence problem, and my computer is now thinking for itself now, 
and has decided I should use the screen blanker.

I guess I'll give filing a bug report about this on Launchpad a try, and 
see if I can get any action going  there that might eventually solve 
this problem.

Later, Ray Parrish

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