By fiddling around, trying to press tilde, I accidentally pressed alt+pause. This turned on my screen saver. Note, I'm running x4 and kernel 2.4.1. I don't know which layer this is touching. Another interesting thing to note is that I don't have the screensaver daemon running. When my system sits idle the kernel screen blanker comes on (configured in kernel compilation). Nevertheless, alt+pause immediately starts up a random screen saver on my system. Go figure... Cory
