Re: Where can I find my current screensaver?

Giuliano Colla <giuliano.colla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 15 Jul 2013 01:14:06 +0200

    Il 14/07/2013 16:42, Timothy Murphy ha
      scritto:

      I like my current screen saver - path through an avenue of trees -
and would like to save it, or perhaps make it permanent.
How can I do that?
I should say I'm running Fedora-19/KDE.

    Method a)

    If you can connect from another computer, you can ssh to your
    Fedora-19 while your favorite screensaver is running, and have a
    console. With the command

    ps ax
    you can see all the running processes, and the current screensaver
    should be one of the most recent ones.

    Method b)

    If you cannot, you may open a console, and type:

    top -i >Top.txt
    Then minimize the console window (sometimes an active console window
    doesn't let the screensaver to start), and wait for your screensaver
    to pop up. At that time you may move the mouse to get your Desktop,
    restore your console window and type q to stop the top
    program. Now, with

    kwrite Top.txt

    you can examine the Table of Process (top) output which
    you've stored with the previous command. You'll see some garbage,
    because the output is intended for a console, and there's a lot of
    commands for cursor positioning, but you'll see in a number of
    entries the name of your screensaver. Being of the highest priority,
    it'll be the first process shown. Sort of:

    [7m  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            (B[m[39;49m[K
(B[m(B[m15002 colla     20   0 10464 4620 2160 R 40.4  0.5   0:01.22 apple2             (B[m[39;49m
(B[m(B[m 1841 root      20   0  122m  19m  10m R  5.6  1.9  12:46.32 X                  (B[m[39;49m
(B[m(B[m14962 colla     20   0  2728 1020  756 R  0.7  0.1   0:00.80 top                (B[m[39;49m
(B[m(B[m 1186 root      20   0     0    0    0 R  0.3  0.0   1:29.11 kondemand/0        (B[m[39;49m
    (in my case the screensaver was "apple2")

    Method c)

    From a console, list the contents of /usr/libexec/xscreensaver, and
    of /usr/bin/*.kss and launch one by one those whose name makes you
    think it could be the good one. Like:

    /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/starwar

    or

    /usr/bin/kwave.kss

    Hope that it helps.

    Giuliano

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