Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (195 mails)

[David Herman <mesamoo115@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been trying to solve this problem off and on for a couple of 
months with no luck. Googl and web searches have only turned up a 
couple of posts that were remotely similar and w/ no solutions so 
here it is.

2 users on this machine have no problems setting up kscreensavers, 
if I create a new user that user can also set up their screensaver.

The problem is that 1 existing user on the machine has no access to 
the kde screensavers. She can open kcontrolcenter, click on the 
screensaver module and the module window appears but no 
screensavers are shown in the list or preview portions of the 
window. All other users can choose kscreensavers using this method 
so it's not an install problem.

As I said before, If I create a new user the screensaver module 
works. If I copy this users /.kde directory to my wifes home folder 
(the user that can't use the kcreensaver module) the screensaver 
module still doesn't work.

From this it seems like a permissions problem, but since all users 
have basically the same permission setups and are members of the 
same groups I have no idea what the permissions problem could be. 

I've rooted around in the ~/.kde directory and found nothing 
unusual. As a matter of fact it is possible to hand edit the 
~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc file and get a functioning 
screensaver, but this is not really an acceptable solution for my 
wife (the user in question) though.

Suse 9.2 kde 3.5.1 (currently, but the problem has existed since 3.4 
at least).

Has anyone seen this problem? Any ideas

Thanks
-- 
dh