screensaver

Michael michael.lawver at pointoflightproducts.com
Fri Jul 12 12:44:42 BST 2002


Well in my case this was due to the fact that I did not install kdeaddons3.

Once you do that you should be fine.

Michael :o)

PS.... sorry I didn't post this message when I solved the problem.



On Sunday 07 July 2002 01:19 am, Bill Fink wrote:
> I have the same problem.  After upgrading from KDE 2.2.1 to 3.0.1,
> none of the KDE screen savers work.  I cannot even do a setup or
> test of any of the screensavers.  However, I can manually run
> kmatrix.kss just fine from the command line.
>
> I tracked this down somewhat and it definitely appears to be a bug
> somewhere in KDE.  I started up the KDE control center, and then did
> an strace on this process.  When I did a test of the Matrix screensaver
> I got:
>
> access("/usr/bin/???????????", F_OK)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
>
> This should have been an access of /usr/bin/kmatrix.kss.  Note that the
> number of '?' characters is equal to the number of characters in
> kmatrix.kss. I suspect a signed versus unsigned character problem causing
> the high order bit in the character to be set (I am running on a PPC
> system).  I tried to verify my suspicion by using the "-x" or "-xx" option
> to strace but it still printed "/usr/bin/???????????" rather than the hex
> values I wanted to see.
>
> So this definitely seems to be a KDE bug, but I couldn't come up with
> any workaround to get it to work properly.
>
> 						-Regards
>
> 						-Bill
>
> P.S.  I am not subscribed to this list.
>
> On 2002-05-21, Michael Lawver wrote:
> > They do not function at all.
> >
> > I'm not referring to xscreensaver at all here.  After I upgraded to dke3,
> > all of the default screensavers in kde simply do not function any more. 
> > In fact, you can't even see the previews for any of them working.
> >
> > I've seen this on two machines now, any Ideas on what could be causing it
> > and how it may be corrected? (As per my original posting)
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Monday 20 May 2002 10:48 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > > Michael wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I just recently updated my FreeBSD to run kde3.
> > > >
> > > > The problem I have is that my screensaver worked just fine under
> > > > kde2.2.2 but now no longer works under kde3.
> > > >
> > > > I've seen this occur twice now since I've updated from kde2 to kde3
> > > > on another machine.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions on what could be causing this and how I can correct
> > > > it?
> > >
> > > What does "no longer works" mean?
> > >
> > > When I installed KDE3 on my Linux system, it didn't find the
> > > xscreensaver files.  I opened a Konsole, added:
> > > "/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver" to the PATH, and ran "kappfinder".  Now
> > > Control Center lists all of them OK.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know why Penrose won't work?
>
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