Re: [opensuse] what happened to screensavers? SOLVED!

Alexander R wrote:

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Sunday February 15 2009, Marc Chamberlin wrote:

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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.

This symptom is precisely what happened to me twice when I installed some Gnome packages (I, too, use KDE 3.5). The first time I wanted the Gnome control panel (or whatever it's called) the second time I wanted Yelp (the Gnome help viewer). Both times I lost the list of screen savers in the KDE configuration. Both times I had made it a point to capture a screen snapshot of the list of automatic package changes tied to the one Gnome package I wanted to add and that I could use that to precisely back out the problematic packages. That, fortunately, did restore my screen saver list.

I guess we can infer that the intersection of those two sets of packages contains the problematic package(s). You can get those images here:

http://208.201.233.232/~rschulz/package-additions.zip

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Am running KDE3.5 under SuSE11.1...

workaround: sudo mkdir /opt/kde3/share/applnk/apps sudo ln -s /opt/kde3/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers /opt/kde3/share/applnk/apps/ScreenSavers

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Million thanks Alexander and Randall for your replies and help. Yes Alexander, your workaround works, too bad I have not seen any updates come out to fix this breakage for other users... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org