chin808 Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 ok guys I have the man to install xscreensavers so they are default. "USING KDE (K DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT) I understand that KDE has invented their own wrapper around xscreensaver, that is inferior to xscreensaver-demo (1) in any number of ways. I've never actually seen it, but I'm told that this is the way you disable it: 1: Switch off KDE's screen saver. Open the ``Control Center'' and select the ``Look and Feel / Screensaver'' page. Turn off the ``Enable Screensaver'' checkbox. 2: Find your Autostart directory. Open the ``Look and Feel / Desktop / Paths'' page, and see what your ``Autostart'' directory is set to: it will probably be ~/.kde3/Autostart/ or something similar. 3: Make xscreensaver be an Autostart program. Create a file in your autostart directory called xscreensaver.desktop that contains the following five lines: [Desktop Entry] Exec=xscreensaver Name=XScreensaver Type=Application X-KDE-StartupNotify=false " I cant find my autostart dir. I have used find files as well as just browsed through Konq. but I cant find this file :unsure: CAn anyone point me in the right direction? thanx -C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 it's in a hidden [with a dot] folder called .kde/Autostart. ls -a in your home dir in a terminal will show it, or tell konq to Show hidden files. So, if I used KDE /home/bvc/.kde/Autostart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 gracias amigo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 do u know how to set the timer? There isnt an option to set when the screensaver starts in the control panel and 30 min is too long to wat imo. thanx -C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 24, 2003 Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 use xscreensaver-demo, if that doesn't work you'll have to create a .xscreensaver file. Check out the man page for more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted November 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 (edited) use xscreensaver-demo, if that doesn't work you'll have to create a .xscreensaver file. Check out the man page for more info yeh I know what was wrong... I was assuming where it said "time before screen goes compltely black" meant just that... Evidently thats the timer for the scr svrpeas -C Edited November 25, 2003 by chin808 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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