Where can I find my current screensaver?

[Giuliano Colla]

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:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            (B
(B(B15002 colla     20   0 10464 4620 2160 R 40.4  0.5   0:01.22 apple2             (B
(B(B 1841 root      20   0  122m  19m  10m R  5.6  1.9  12:46.32 X                  (B
(B(B14962 colla     20   0  2728 1020  756 R  0.7  0.1   0:00.80 top                (B
(B(B 1186 root      20   0     0    0    0 R  0.3  0.0   1:29.11 kondemand/0        (B

(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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