Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1972 mails)

[Alexander R <aleromex@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday March 10 2009, Alexander R wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > On Sunday February 15 2009, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> > > > Sometimes I feel like it is just one $%@(! breakage after another
> > > > in Linux! I have not done anything other than ordinary updates, as
> > > > they come in, and now this time one of my systems no longer has
> > > > any screen savers showing in the list of the KDE -> Personal
> > > > Settings -> Screen Saver.  I noted it when the screen saver failed
> > > > to run and so went in to see what the problem was.... The Setup
> > > > and Test buttons are grayed out/inoperative and no screen savers
> > > > are listed. SO WHAT HAPPENED?
> > > >
> > > > Did a reinstall of all packages related to screen savers, and now
> > > > I see that the screen savers are again running (randomly as I
> > > > normally select) BUT still no list of screen savers is being shown
> > > > in the KDE configuration tool.
> > > >
> > > > Am running KDE3.5 under SuSE11.1...
> > >
> > > This symptom is precisely what happened to me twice when I
> > > installed some Gnome packages (I, too, use KDE 3.5). ...
> >
> > workaround:
> > sudo mkdir /opt/kde3/share/applnk/apps
> > sudo ln -s /opt/kde3/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers
> > /opt/kde3/share/applnk/apps/ScreenSavers
> >
> > i'm using opensuse11.1, x64, default kde3.5
>
> Interesting. How did you figure out what was happening? Do you know
> which Gnome-related package perpetrated this corruption?
>
> I'm running the 32-bit counterpart to you setup.

I don't know what happened :) I just "strace kcmshell screensavers"
and it show where it searches screensavers
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