The easiest way is to look for .xscreensaver file in your home directory. This contains the list of all the screen savers you can run in KDE> simply putting a hyphen(minus sign) at the beginning of a line which contains the name of the screen saver you wish to disable, will disable it. Somebody misguided you, no screen saver is in built into the kernel (except the screen blanking feature which is DPMS for saving power in screen save mode). Screen savers are also just like other program installed in some directory(I never tried looking for that though.). GL is what the authors of those screen savers have taken from OpenGL which is has something to do with the fancy graphics you see in those screen savers and also almost all the modern big 3-D games which have complex screens. To be able to have OpenGL support from your system you need 1) A graphics card that supports OpenGL 2) Driver for that card which allows the applications (like games/screensavers) to tap that functionality of the card. In your case the first card probably did not support OpenGL at all. In second case the default driver did not support OpenGL. VJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "redhat" <redhat@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 6:22 AM Subject: KDE & Screensavers (RH9) > > Ok, I like screen savers. > > But not all of them. > > KDE has a bunch and I normally set it to RANDOM, but is there a way to > disable a few that I don't like? > > Along the same lines, can I add any from somewhere on the net? > > I wish the screen saver was set up with check boxes so you could check > the ones you liked and forget about the ones you didn't. > > Somewhere I read that they are in the actual kernel. That doesn't sound > right to me. > > Any help? > > BTW - what does GL stand for (Great Looking =) ? I really like most of > those. > > And I know that they (GL) didn't work on my old graphics card, and the > new card before I updated the Nvidia drivers. > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
