Crashable screen saver

Peter Hillier-Brook phb at hbsys.plus.com
Sun Mar 8 21:48:10 UTC 2009


Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
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>> 
> Have you tried "locate screensaver.conf" which shows: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-screensaver.conffiles

I tried a different approach in that I used 'find' to locate any and all 
*molecule* files and than renamed them with a '.old' suffix.

> Cating the above gives two files in /etc that may help. 
> etc/xdg/menus/gnome-screensavers.menu /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver

I'll look at those out of interest; thanks for the hint.

> I would have tried just removing the molecule.desktop first to see if
> that got rid of your lockup.

Interesting. I don't recall seeing that after find, but I'll try harder. :-)

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> locate molecule shows:
> 
> /usr/share/man/man6/molecule.6x.gz 
> /usr/share/xscreensaver/config/molecule.xml

Yes. Another rename.

Thanks again for your help.

Peter HB







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