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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 14/07/2013 16:42, Timothy Murphy ha
scritto:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:krudd5$l93$2@ger.gmane.org" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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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Method a)<br>
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<br>
<pre>ps ax</pre>
you can see all the running processes, and the current screensaver
should be one of the most recent ones.<br>
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Method b)<br>
If you cannot, you may open a console, and type:<br>
<pre>top -i >Top.txt</pre>
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 <i>q</i> to stop the <i>top</i>
program. Now, with<br>
<pre>kwrite Top.txt
</pre>
you can examine the Table of Process (<i>top</i>) 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:<br>
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<pre>[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</pre>
(in my case the screensaver was "apple2")<br>
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Method c)<br>
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:<br>
<pre>/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/starwar
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or<br>
<pre>/usr/bin/kwave.kss</pre>
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Hope that it helps.<br>
<br>
Giuliano<br>
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