Screen Saver Leaves Panels Visible Why? **SOLVED**

[Jay Ridgley]

On 01/26/2013 02:49 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> On 01/26/2013 01:19 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 01/26/2013 09:37 AM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2013 07:22 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>>>> On 01/24/2013 02:53 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>> On 24 January 2013 02:48, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I start the screen saver or when it starts by itself the top
>>>>>> and left
>>>>>> panels still show. How do I get the entire screen to be part of the
>>>>>> screen
>>>>>> saver?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This system is newly upgraded 12.04.1 LTS with Unity desktop from
>>>>>> 10.04.4
>>>>>> LTS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It did not perform this way on 10.04.4 LTS and does not leave anything
>>>>>> showing on another system running 12.04.1 LTS
>>>>>
>>>>> How have you enabled the screensaver?  In detail please.
>>>>>
>>>>> Colin
>>>>>
>>>> Colin,
>>>>
>>>> I enabled the xscreensaver by:
>>>>
>>>>  From Dash-->Apps-->Screensaver
>>>>
>>>> A dialog box appeared with the message Warning about xscreensaver not
>>>> running
>>>> and did I want to start it now? My reply was Yes.
>>>>
>>>> I chose Mode: Only One Screen Saver and picked Hypertorus
>>>>
>>>> Blank after 10 min (default)
>>>> Cycle after 10 min (default)
>>>>
>>>> Unchecked Lock Screen
>>>>
>>>> That is all.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jay
>>>>
>>> Colin and the List,
>>>
>>> I have also tried to uninstall and reinstall the screensaver... there
>>> was no change.
>>
>> I usually use xsreensaver as that one seems to run best for me. Ric
>>
>>
>>
> Ric,
>
> That is what I am running! See below:
>
> jay at polar:~$ ps -ef|grep "xscreensaver"
> jay      22712     1  0 Jan24 ?        00:00:06 xscreensaver -nosplash
> jay      32358 17929  0 14:46 pts/0    00:00:00 grep xscreensaver
> jay at polar:~$
>
> Regards,
> Jay
>
>
>
Folks,

By examining the entry in synaptic (should always be part of the install) I 
discovered that the gonme-screensaver was installed once I removed it things 
started working properly.

Suggestion to  the developers -- when xscreensaver is installed remove 
gnome-screensaver.

Cheers,
Jay


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