screensaver

[Rob Hudson]

kdeaddons was part of the garnome set, and was installed, but still lock 
won't let me back in.  I have to Ctrl-Alt-F2 to a shell, then kill the 
2 processes that lock the screen to get back to the desktop.  

Maybe I'm missing a necessary library that kdeaddons uses?

-Rob

On Friday 12 July 2002 04:44 am, Michael wrote:
> 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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