On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:13 -0800, Andreas wrote: > Am Sonntag, 4. November 2007 17:07:24 schrieb Robert Lewis: > > 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.
> 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. Great (well not so), someone else also has this - I thought I was the only one. This is def a mplayer (movie player? I only use mplayer) and kpowersave issue (since 10.0; 9 worked fine). I will see if I can recreate it and file a bug report. Hans E-mail Disclaimer http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
