On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, g wrote:
i have gone back thru old post and tried again to locate just where
kde hides
config for locking desktop, it still evades.
I did find, rather someone on the list told me,
but it didn't matter.
Thank you for the effort.
I discovered the program: /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver .
I have no idea why it was running on a KDE desktop:
My desktop has a captital K stepping in a gear in the lower left corner.
From another virtual terminal,
xwininfo -tree -root
showed me a 1280x1024 window named gnome-screensaver.
I couldn't xkill it, but ps gave me its process ID.
As a stopgap, I copied it to another name, removed the original,
and made an empty file with all-zero permission bits.
Presumably this will cause me trouble at update time.
in a previous post, i suggested 1 -> 4, you tried 1, 2. no joy,
which leaves;
3) r & r kde.
4) someone else this list | kde 'tech list' | read source.
now, i would suggest skip #3. there was no 4-a. i doubt you want to go thru
4-c.
I didn't understand r & r anyway.
so best bet would be 4-b. if that fails, then return to 3) r & r
kde.
5, which i did not want to mention, if 3 does not work, would be r & r 'x'.
fedora list is where kde 'hackers' hang out.
i do believe that you will get a favorable response from kde as that is where
actual 'writers' for kde hang out and they do respond to post.
i do wish i could have helped you find a solution, but it was not meant to be.
so, from my firefox bookmarks:
K Desktop Environment =
http://www.kde.org/
K Desktop Environment - KDE Mailing Lists =
http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/
another suggestion, if you want stable, 'centos' or 'scientificlinux'. i
tried
'centos' a few kernels back, removed it after about 10 minutes of wading thru.
at that time, it just was not what i needed, so i am now going to install
'scientificlinux'.
These are other distros, right?
I'd read of scientificlinux lately, but don't remember where.
with 'higher level of minds' that are involved with
'fnal' and 'cern', i do
believe 'scientificlinux' will be more to what i need and have been looking
for.
good luck to you in finding a solution and even more so at ndus.
Thanks.
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised)
are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only
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