On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:15, Tom Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:10, Alan Jackson wrote: > > I have one of those little nagging problems that mystifies me. > > > > I'm running gentoo 2.4.20-r6 with KDE 3.1.2. The problem? I cannot > > get the screensaver to work. I set it up, the test works fine, but then > > it never automatically starts. Has anyone seen this before? > > I have a similar problem. Sometimes the screensave kicks in, sometimes > it doesn't. If the screensaver hasn't started after the set time, open > a terminal and do a ps -ef. Look for a process that has something like > kdedesktop_lock or desktop_lock or something like that. I can't > remember exactly what it is but it has the lock at the end. Kill that > process and the screensaver should kick on.
I just had the problem and here is the exact name of the process. It is '/usr/bin/kdesktop_lock'. Kill that process and the screensaver will come on next time. Tom Wilson McSwain Carpets 513.771.1400 x124 ----- "It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
