What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something? Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be. Lee
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee
But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying! Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
On Friday 26 May 2006 20:41, Basil Chupin wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
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You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee
But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers. ========
Have you checked the power settings on the monitor? Usually it's the DPMS, I believe, that puts the monitor in sleep mode. Does the monitor just go blank? Do you have the powersave utility running? Lee
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 20:41, Basil Chupin wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
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You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee
But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers.
========
Have you checked the power settings on the monitor? Usually it's the DPMS, I believe, that puts the monitor in sleep mode. Does the monitor just go blank? Do you have the powersave utility running?
Lee
I have found that you had to change the screen saver via the gnome screensaver. Application->system->configuration->gnome configuration editor Under apps->gnome-screensaver -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
Joseph Loo wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 20:41, Basil Chupin wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
--------------
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee
But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers.
========
Have you checked the power settings on the monitor? Usually it's the DPMS, I believe, that puts the monitor in sleep mode. Does the monitor just go blank? Do you have the powersave utility running?
Lee
I have found that you had to change the screen saver via the gnome screensaver. Application->system->configuration->gnome configuration editor Under apps->gnome-screensaver
Run this past me again with the references to do with KDE - I am not using the gnome desktop. Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
Basil Chupin wrote:
I have found that you had to change the screen saver via the gnome screensaver. Application->system->configuration->gnome configuration editor Under apps->gnome-screensaver
Run this past me again with the references to do with KDE - I am not using the gnome desktop.
Doesn't matter. As soon as you run an app that involves gnome, the gnome session environment fires up, including Gnome's screensaver. It's all rather silly. Just run gnome-control-center and go into the screensaver section and shut it off. It'll then only use the KDE screensaver.
suse@rio.vg wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
I have found that you had to change the screen saver via the gnome screensaver. Application->system->configuration->gnome configuration editor Under apps->gnome-screensaver Run this past me again with the references to do with KDE - I am not using the gnome desktop.
Doesn't matter. As soon as you run an app that involves gnome, the gnome session environment fires up, including Gnome's screensaver. It's all rather silly. Just run gnome-control-center and go into the screensaver section and shut it off. It'll then only use the KDE screensaver.
The dreaded "gnome-control-center" rears its head again :-) (Hi Ben!). Thanks for this, I'll install a gnome app. and see wot happens :-). Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
Basil Chupin wrote:
Joseph Loo wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 20:41, Basil Chupin wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
--------------
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee
But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers.
========
Have you checked the power settings on the monitor? Usually it's the DPMS, I believe, that puts the monitor in sleep mode. Does the monitor just go blank? Do you have the powersave utility running?
Lee
I have found that you had to change the screen saver via the gnome screensaver. Application->system->configuration->gnome configuration editor Under apps->gnome-screensaver
Run this past me again with the references to do with KDE - I am not using the gnome desktop.
Cheers.
I genreally do not use kde. I am a gnome person. I am not sure how you would fo it for kde. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 20:41, Basil Chupin wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers. ========
Have you checked the power settings on the monitor? Usually it's the DPMS, I believe, that puts the monitor in sleep mode. Does the monitor just go blank? Do you have the powersave utility running?
Lee
Nope, setting DPMS under the monitor settings (Control Centre/Hardware/Display) does SFA- the monitor still blanks after 10 minutes. Setting the screensaver to start after 90 minutes (or any number of minutes even to 999 minutes) still has the screen blanking. However, asking me if I had a powersave utility running prompted me to go into Control Centre and check if any daemons were running. Yes, the powersave demon was running so I switched it off. Seems that this may have done the trick and the screen stays put now - at least on this logon and at this point in time. This of course begs the obvious question: why the heck is there all that provision of tick boxes in Desktop Configuration, and elsewhere like the DPMS setting, if none of this ticking/unticking boxes works?! and the only way to stop the screen blanking is to stop the powersaving daemon from running! I've picked-up on another "feature" ("No Sir, we calls that a 'bug' ") but I'll start later a new thread on it. Thanks for the push in the right direction on this hassle :-) . Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
Am Samstag, 27. Mai 2006 02:41 schrieb Basil Chupin:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
--------------
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee
But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers.
-- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
I raised it with the KDE people, but it turns out it is the proprietary nVidia and ATi drivers, if you use the OSS (non-3D) drivers, then the screen saver and DPMS settings work correctly, but if you install the official nVidia or ATi drivers, you need to adjust the timeout settings every time you re-boot the PC or restart X. It seems that for some reason the driver doesn't accept the updated settings when X starts, you need to manually force it. Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
David Wright wrote:
Am Samstag, 27. Mai 2006 02:41 schrieb Basil Chupin:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers.
-- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
I raised it with the KDE people, but it turns out it is the proprietary nVidia and ATi drivers, if you use the OSS (non-3D) drivers, then the screen saver and DPMS settings work correctly, but if you install the official nVidia or ATi drivers, you need to adjust the timeout settings every time you re-boot the PC or restart X.
It seems that for some reason the driver doesn't accept the updated settings when X starts, you need to manually force it.
Dave
I don't suppose, Dave, you still have their response? If you do would yo FWD it to me (or even here) because I am wondering which timeout settings to adjust and where to find them. Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
Am Sonntag, 28. Mai 2006 17:08 schrieben Sie:
David Wright wrote:
Am Samstag, 27. Mai 2006 02:41 schrieb Basil Chupin:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
--------------
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee
But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers.
-- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.
I raised it with the KDE people, but it turns out it is the proprietary nVidia and ATi drivers, if you use the OSS (non-3D) drivers, then the screen saver and DPMS settings work correctly, but if you install the official nVidia or ATi drivers, you need to adjust the timeout settings every time you re-boot the PC or restart X.
It seems that for some reason the driver doesn't accept the updated settings when X starts, you need to manually force it.
Dave
I don't suppose, Dave, you still have their response? If you do would yo FWD it to me (or even here) because I am wondering which timeout settings to adjust and where to find them.
Cheers.
I got tied up with the Beta test of 10.1 and a project, so I haven't checked back on the status until now... This is the bug I raised at KDE.org: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121539 Which I raised back in February, but the bug report is still open as unconfirmed! -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
You're using GNOME right? In which case it's Novell bug #116331 - add a comment to say the same happens for you. -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org http://usr-local-bin.org Packages for SUSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Help end poverty: http://oxfam.org.uk/imin
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 10:30 +0100, James Ogley wrote:
116331
Comment added to the ref bug. Thanks for letting me know that it's a known problem. Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
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