On 2/25/06, Dariusz J. Garbowski <thuforuk(a)yahoo.co.uk&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason I can see only very limited number of screensavers (21 > in total) in KDE Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Screen Saver > panel. I know there are plenty more installed since choosing "Random" > option will result in screensaver I cannot choose manually. Worse yet, > half of the available ones are OpenGL (10) that do not seem to work on > my hardware :( I have a full list on FC3 box but not on FC5t3... > > Is this supoosed to be this way? Why? Not real sure why your listing is shorter but I do know that if you choose "random" screen saver all the files located in the xscreensaver directory will be used, randomly, even if they are not listed as "choosable."

Hi, For some reason I can see only very limited number of screensavers (21 in total) in KDE Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Screen Saver panel. I know there are plenty more installed since choosing "Random" option will result in screensaver I cannot choose manually. Worse yet, half of the available ones are OpenGL (10) that do not seem to work on my hardware :( I have a full list on FC3 box but not on FC5t3... Is this supoosed to be this way? Why?

Terry Polzin a écrit : > On Saturday February 25 2006 08:08, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> For some reason I can see only very limited number of screensavers (21 >> in total) in KDE Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Screen Saver >> panel. I know there are plenty more installed since choosing "Random" >> option will result in screensaver I cannot choose manually. Worse yet, >> half of the available ones are OpenGL (10) that do not seem to work on >> my hardware :( I have a full list on FC3 box but not on FC5t3... >> >> Is this supoosed to be this way? Why? >> > In FC4 there was a separate screen sever package (xscreensaver-base) > that has to be installed manually > There are 3 additionals RPM available xscreensaver-extras-4.24-1.1 xscreensaver-gl-extras-4.24-1.1 xscreensaver-base-4.24-1.1

Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: > On 02/25/2006 05:56 PM, Remi Collet wrote: >> Terry Polzin a écrit : >> There are 3 additionals RPM available >> xscreensaver-extras-4.24-1.1 >> xscreensaver-gl-extras-4.24-1.1 >> xscreensaver-base-4.24-1.1 > > xscreensaver-base package helped a lot, thanks! > > Question still remains: why not all installed (in default install) > screensavers are listed in Control Center? > > Is this a bug? It is a good candidate for a bug report. It impedes usability, functionality and product satisfaction. If this is by design or accidental, it is a bug candidate.

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 14:38 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: > On 02/25/2006 05:56 PM, Remi Collet wrote: >> Terry Polzin a écrit : >>> On Saturday February 25 2006 08:08, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> For some reason I can see only very limited number of screensavers (21 >>>> in total) in KDE Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Screen Saver >>>> panel. I know there are plenty more installed since choosing "Random" >>>> option will result in screensaver I cannot choose manually. Worse yet, >>>> half of the available ones are OpenGL (10) that do not seem to work on >>>> my hardware :( I have a full list on FC3 box but not on FC5t3... >>>> >>>> Is this supoosed to be this way? Why? >>>> >>> In FC4 there was a separate screen sever package (xscreensaver-base) >>> that has to be installed manually >>> >> There are 3 additionals RPM available >> xscreensaver-extras-4.24-1.1 >> xscreensaver-gl-extras-4.24-1.1 >> xscreensaver-base-4.24-1.1 > xscreensaver-base package helped a lot, thanks! > > Question still remains: why not all installed (in default install) > screensavers are listed in Control Center? > The screensavers package used to include all the screensavers and many people were having problems because the gl screensavers were causing lock-ups on systems that could not run the gl packages in X. AIUI, the base package does not have any of the gl screensavers so that is avoided. The extras and gl-extras are just that -- additional screensavers that some might want.