[CS-FSLUG] Theory Exercise: Stable Desktop

Ed Hurst ehurst at soulkiln.org
Sat Jan 3 16:20:11 CST 2009


Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> The screen saver in KDE worked for me very well not long ago, I forget which 
> distro it was.  DPMS never seems to work very well under Linux, at least in my 
> experience.  But I very strongly suspect that the causes are better studied as 
> distro-trouble, than KDE trouble, because the issues involved are far more 
> integration of desktop/X.org/kernel, rather than desktop alone.

I profess ignorance. However, on each of the same places KDE screensaver 
and power controls failed, Xscreensaver worked like a charm. I ended up 
using it directly and keeping the KDE version turned off.

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