Screensaver not Working

[DevHead]

Trying it out tonight. Can't get the screensaver feature to work properly.

1. Selected "The Matrix" screensaver
2. Set to start automatically after 1 minute - box checked
3. Require password to stop - box checked

After 1 minute elapsed, the screensaver kicks in. Instead of the Matrix screensaver, I just get a black screen. I did have to enter the password to stop it.

So in all, only #2 and #3 really worked. Anyone got #1 to work?

What's this "Advanced Options" thing under the preview? Anyone tried that [yet]?

[superbnerd]

check the advanced tab and make sure you are not using power management that puts your monitor to sleep. does it work with other screen savers?

[imdeemvp]

go to >preferences >screensaver and make sure under MODE you are not selecting BLANK SCREEN but that you are selectin ONLY ONE SCREENSAVER

[Jman]

GLMatrix or xmatrix? GLMatrix is pretty subtle, but looks really nice. Maybe you need to turn up the symbol density.

[DevHead]

1. Power management NOT turn ON.
2. Yes, only 1 screensaver is selected: The Matrix
3. No, it's not the GLMatrix--just "The Matrix" under Banners & Pictures

:confused: :confused:

Running KDE, if that matters.

[imdeemvp]

can you try to expand the time for screensaver....

[DevHead]

It's set to 7 minutes now before the screensaver starts. Let me change the session to Gnome and see if that makes any difference (which I don't think it should but what the heck).

Edit: Aha! I might be on to something. Logging in via Gnome and going through the screensaver option, it gave me an error. This is the message:

"The XScreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on display ":0.0". Launch it now?"

I clicked OK, but it still had another error--something about xhost +localhost and something along the lines of File/Restart Daemon

[cylon]

Are u running as root?

[DevHead]

Yes, running as root. It shouldn't matter for the screensaver under what profile you're currently logged in, should it?

[olivierv]

I think it does. I don't think xscreensaver allows you to run it under the root ID.

From the xscreensaver website:

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-fail

Don't log in as root! :)

[DevHead]

Hmmm, then that poses another question about screensavers. On another computer (laptop), I'm running FC2 (as root). The Matrix screensaver works just fine on the laptop.

So if running as root disables the screensaver, how does one explain the laptop screensaver? Real puzzled now.

[olivierv]

As the FAQs mention, you can enable root to run the xscreensaver program. An example of that is using the xhost + command before starting the xscreensaver program.

The FAQs I linked to earlier and the site in general should have all the answers you need. I've never tried to run the screensavers as root, so I'm not sure why it works on one and not the other.

[superbnerd]

i have tried to run the screen saver as root and it didn't work. it should, especially so I can use the lock screen feature for extra security if I get distracted while doing something as root. but then again you shouldn't hae to ever login in as root becuase we have the su and sudo commands.
is the matrix screen saver an included screensaver or an add on?

[DevHead]

The screensaver came with FC3 T2. It's just part of the core installation. Yeah, I'm still puzzled as to why it would work on the laptop but not on the desktop. Strange. Oh well. I'm not going to lose sleep over this. :)

[DevHead]

Screensaver works if youL
a. run as a regular user (not root) under the GNOME environment

Screensaver DO NOT work if you:
a. run as a regular user (not root) under the KDE environment
b. run as root under the KDE environment


It appears the screensaver do not function as described in the first post under KDE (at least for me). If someone can get it to work, I'd like to know. :)