[xubuntu-users] Locking up on screen saver

[Skip Evans]

Yes, I think you're on to it there, my man. I 
grabbed "no screen saver" real quick as it entered 
the screen saver and that seems to have done it.

I beat that little ant that wanted to crawl around 
  a bit, little sucker!

Skip

Jesus Gamio wrote:
> I don't sure his is your case but some people have problems with the screen
> saver uses 3D just selecting a no 3D screen saver the problem is resolved.
> 
> 
> On 5/9/07, Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Some one just gave me a laptop for some work I did
>> for them. Seems like a not too bad little machine,
>> though an off-brand perhaps: an Averatec 3200 Series.
>>
>> It loaded Xu fine and seems to run okay, but the
>> screen saver locks it up. This is something I
>> experienced with a desktop machine once, but I
>> just turned off the screen saver and all was fine.
>>
>> I notice that when I go into Session Settings and
>> then the Screen Saver, once the image of the
>> current screen saver comes up the machine freezes.
>> It happens the split second the image for the
>> current screen saver appears, but just before this
>> the mouse is still movable. I tried to jump to the
>> settings quickly to disable it before the image
>> displays, but no go.
>>
>> Is there a config file in can simply edit with vi
>> somewhere that will disable the screen saver?
>>
>> I'm sure there is, I just need to find it. Any
>> help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
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