__/ [ Brad ] on Monday 07 August 2006 06:02 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ Jim Jones ] on Monday 07 August 2006 03:20 \__
>>
>>> Richard Harrison wrote:
>>>> Snorkelson MacBurp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Richard Harrison said the following on 06/08/06 19:30:
>>>>>> Suse 10.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Via Personal Setting have selected screensaver and set actvation time
>>>>>> to 4 minutes. Screen goes totally black after about 5 minutes of
>>>>>> inactivity but screensaver never is displayed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What are the correct settings? Help!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rich
>>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have "require password to stop" checked? If so, uncheck it.
>>>>
>>>> No, don't have it checked.
>>>>
>>>> Rich
>>>
>>> Did you by chance disable the power control on the power control tab of
>>> the display settings? If so re-enable it and set all the time setting
>>> down so they won't coem on anyway. That seemed to be the problem when I
>>> had it.
>>
>> I can't recall which other process was notorious for spurring activity
>> that prevented the screensaver from being initiated in KDE. It's worth
>> searching the archive...
>>
>>
>
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/search?group=alt.os.linux.suse&q=screensaver&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group
>>
>> Just in case the advice given by others does not help.
>
> For what it's worth, the "Smart Package Update Checker" running in the
> kicker was not allowing my screensaver to activate.
Now that you mention it, YOU (YaST Online Update) was probably the culprit in
SUSE -- that which I heard about before.
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