Re: KDE & Screensavers (RH9)

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Here is .xscreensaver file I took from my PC at home. It's name is
.xscreensaver and was located in my home directory.
May be this file was created because I use xcreensaver to run other screen
savers and I use Gnome only.
Thanks for the information about directory locations.

VJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Haxby" <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: KDE & Screensavers (RH9)


> VJ wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> I haven't :-(   In fact, I can't find anything with such a list.
>
> >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).
> >
> >
> You're right -- this is the silly kind of thing that you'd expect of NT,
> but not Linux.
>
> >Screen savers are also just like other program installed in some
directory(I
> >never tried looking for that though.).
> >
> The KDE screensavers are /usr/bin/*.kss (interestingly that includes one
> called xscreensaver.kss which seems to invoke the xscreensaver
> screensavers that are in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver (these are the ones
> that gnome uses).
>
> jch
>
>
>
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