KDE 3.3 screensavers are gone

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Capsad

Beginner

Posts: 3

Thursday, August 19th 2004, 9:37pm

KDE 3.3 screensavers are gone

Hi,
I have updatet to kde 3.3 (i use suse 9.1 and used their rpms). Everything works fine, except the screensavers, when i start kcontrol and go to the screensavers tab, the preview window is black, and none screensaver gives me a preview, only a black window. When i click on test, nothing happens. With xscreensaver, everything works fine, i see apreview and i can test the screensavers. Can anybody help me?
thanks,
Capsad

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Capsad

Beginner

Posts: 3

Thursday, August 19th 2004, 10:55pm

Hi,
I've just found out, that only the kdeartwork3-xscreensavers donÄt work. If i delete that package, then I have much less screensavers, but they all really work very well.
bye
Capsad

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m4ktub

Intermediate

Posts: 257

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Occupation: Software Engineer

Thursday, August 19th 2004, 11:15pm

It happened to me sometimes but only with OpenGL screensavers before I have the correct drivers.

Are all your screensavers OpenGLed?

Probably not but just a guess.

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Capsad

Beginner

Posts: 3

Thursday, August 19th 2004, 11:20pm

Hi,
no, not all my screensavers are opengl, there are some opengl screensavers as well as some non-opengl screensavers working (like I wrote every screensaver except the ones in the kdeartwork3-xscreensavers rpm package). But I still have testet the screensavers from that package with different graphic drivers (i use a nvidia card an i have testet it with the nv driver, which doesn'T support 3d acceleration, and with the newest nvidia version of the drivers, but one workd with the screensavers mentioned above).
bye
Hans

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bstocker

Beginner

Posts: 2

Friday, August 20th 2004, 1:19pm

Same problem here, but with SuSE 9.0: Upgraded from KDE 3.2 to KDE 3.3. Screensavers are visible in the configuration panel, but won't work. Screen just turns black. After removing kdeartwork3-xscreensaver, screensavers work, but the list is much smaller.

The problem could be releated to kdeartwork3-xscreensaver, because everything works fine when using xscreensaver instead of kxsrun/kxsconfig:

start the daemon: xscreensaver &
config saver: xscreensaver-demo
test it: xscreensaver-command -activate

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bstocker

Beginner

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Friday, August 20th 2004, 1:44pm

Hi again

I solved the problem by just reinstalling a older version of kdeartwork3-xscreensaver.

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falconsclaw

Beginner

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Wednesday, September 1st 2004, 9:19pm

I found a little better solution without going back versions. It seems we need just a few symlinks... Thanks to Kastorff for posting this on SuSELinuxSupport.de:

http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.…hl=xscreensaver