Am Sonntag, 4. November 2007 17:07:24 schrieb Robert Lewis:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior?
Bob
I have the same problem and simply gave up on it. When I walk away from the computer, I manually switch off the monitor. I had thought that kplayer was the culprit, as it seemed to happen only after I played a video, but that only accounts for maybe 3/4 of the screensaver failures. To bring the screensaver back to life, I open kpowersave, change some arbitrary setting in the "screensaver & dpms" window, save the setting, then change them back to how I had them before. Then I open the desktop control center, got to appearance -> screensaver and do the same there. That sometimes helps, sometimes it doesn't. A very frustrating experience. -- Gruß Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org