--- Dave <wintermutecx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/18/05, Dave <wintermutecx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Come to think of it, I changed my SS from slideview to Matrix a
> > couple weeks back and it ended up just blanking the screen. I didnt
> > give it much thought back then. I'll try anohter one and see what
> > happens.
> >
> > PS: I was on FC2 and copied over my home directory so its not a new
> > CentOS4 account.
>
> Looks like some work and some dont here. In FC I only used slideshow
> and on occasion Matrix. Now matrix no longer works and some others.
>
> Here are the errors I got.
> X error in xmatrix:
> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes)
> Resource id in failed request: 0x7
> Serial number of failed request: 701
> Current serial number in output stream: 702
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
>
> X error in bsod:
> X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes)
> Resource id in failed request: 0x7
> Serial number of failed request: 702
> Current serial number in output stream: 703
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
>
> HTH
>
>
Hi Dave!
Don't know if you caught my last post on this so just in case I'll
re-post it here. In a nutshell, I bypassed KDE for running Screen savers.
>From prior post:
I found a work-around that allows most of the screen savers to
work. Some of the GL savers are still a little slugish or buggy.
I installed the latest KDE updates in the Centos 4.1 update repository
but that did not solve the problem.
I ran man xscreensaver and found out a way to run xscreensaver that
bypasses KDE and this got around the problem.
I did the following:
1). ran control-center and turned screensavers off in KDE.
2). created a file named xscreensaver.desktop and placed it
in by ~.kde/Autostart directory.
The file contains the following lines:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=xscreensaver
Name=XScreensaver
Type=Application
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
3). then I created a program launcher on my desktop that runs
xscreensaver-demo when I want to change to different screen savers.
Now xscreensaver startups when I login and my screen savers work!
