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Re: Screensaver Never Comes On.

  • Subject: Re: Screensaver Never Comes On.
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:48:04 +0100
  • Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.suse
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS
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__/ [ 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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