KDE screensaver problem

[Alan Jackson]

That fixed it! Thanks!!

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:02:17 -0500
Tom Wilson <twilson at mcswaincarpets.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:15, Tom Wilson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:10, Alan Jackson wrote:
> > > I have one of those little nagging problems that mystifies me.
> > > 
> > > I'm running gentoo 2.4.20-r6 with KDE 3.1.2. The problem? I cannot
> > > get the screensaver to work. I set it up, the test works fine, but then
> > > it never automatically starts. Has anyone seen this before?
> > 
> > I have a similar problem.  Sometimes the screensave kicks in, sometimes
> > it doesn't.  If the screensaver hasn't started after the set time, open
> > a terminal and do a ps -ef.  Look for a process that has something like
> > kdedesktop_lock or desktop_lock or something like that.  I can't
> > remember exactly what it is but it has the lock at the end.  Kill that
> > process and the screensaver should kick on.  
> 
> I just had the problem and here is the exact name of the process.  It is
> '/usr/bin/kdesktop_lock'.  Kill that process and the screensaver will
> come on next time.  
> 
> Tom Wilson 
> McSwain Carpets 
> 513.771.1400 x124 
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