9:42 a.m.
I like my current screen saver - path through an avenue of trees -
and would like to save it, or perhaps make it permanent.
How can I do that?
I should say I'm running Fedora-19/KDE.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
12:26 p.m.
/usr/local/share/kde4/services/ScreenSavers/
check here to see if its saved in this location
>> Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)alice.it> 7/14/2013 10:42 AM
>>>
I like my current screen saver - path through an avenue of trees -
and would like to save it, or perhaps make it permanent.
How can I do that?
I should say I'm running Fedora-19/KDE.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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3:32 p.m.
Chris Roberts wrote:
> I like my current screen saver - path through an avenue of trees
-
> and would like to save it, or perhaps make it permanent.
> How can I do that?
> I should say I'm running Fedora-19/KDE.
/usr/local/share/kde4/services/ScreenSavers/
check here to see if its saved in this location
I have no such directory.
I have what I assume is a long list of screensavers in
/usr/share/kde4/services/ScreenSavers/
but I don't see any indication of which is the _current_ screensaver.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
6:14 p.m.
Il 14/07/2013 16:42, Timothy Murphy ha scritto:
I like my current screen saver - path through an avenue of trees -
and would like to save it, or perhaps make it permanent.
How can I do that?
I should say I'm running Fedora-19/KDE.
Method a)
If you can connect from another computer, you can ssh to your Fedora-19
while your favorite screensaver is running, and have a console. With the
command
ps ax
you can see all the running processes, and the current screensaver
should be one of the most recent ones.
Method b)
If you cannot, you may open a console, and type:
top -i >Top.txt
Then minimize the console window (sometimes an active console window
doesn't let the screensaver to start), and wait for your screensaver to
pop up. At that time you may move the mouse to get your Desktop, restore
your console window and type /q/ to stop the /top/ program. Now, with
kwrite Top.txt
you can examine the Table of Process (/top/) output which you've stored
with the previous command. You'll see some garbage, because the output
is intended for a console, and there's a lot of commands for cursor
positioning, but you'll see in a number of entries the name of your
screensaver. Being of the highest priority, it'll be the first process
shown. Sort of:
[7m PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
(B[m[39;49m[K
(B[m(B[m15002 colla 20 0 10464 4620 2160 R 40.4 0.5 0:01.22 apple2
(B[m[39;49m
(B[m(B[m 1841 root 20 0 122m 19m 10m R 5.6 1.9 12:46.32 X
(B[m[39;49m
(B[m(B[m14962 colla 20 0 2728 1020 756 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.80 top
(B[m[39;49m
(B[m(B[m 1186 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 0.3 0.0 1:29.11 kondemand/0
(B[m[39;49m
(in my case the screensaver was "apple2")
Method c)
From a console, list the contents of /usr/libexec/xscreensaver, and of
/usr/bin/*.kss and launch one by one those whose name makes you think it
could be the good one. Like:
/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/starwar
or
/usr/bin/kwave.kss
Hope that it helps.
Giuliano
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