Problem with kde screensaver on FC6

[William W. Austin]

On 2006-11-17 at various times, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>  
wrote:

> William W. Austin <waustin <at>  speakeasy.net> writes:
>>  One user (me, unfortunately) cannot configure the screen saver - any
>>  other user (privileged or regular user) can click on the "Configure
>>  screen saver" button and the window pops up with a scrolling list of
>>  screen savers.  When I do that, I get ths configuration window but
>>  the
>>  list is unpopulated.
> 
> Make sure you have xscreensaver-base, xscreensaver-extras and
> xscreensaver-extras-gl installed.

(LATER)

> You could try:
> $ yum install kdeartwork-extras
> will get you extra (xscreensaver-based) kde screensavers (not directly
> your problem) from Fedora Extras.
> 
> Find/remove the [ScreenSaver] section from ~/.kde/share/config/
> kdesktop, if
> you get desperate, you could even try renaming/deleting that file.

(and LATER)

> Not (necessarily) required, though that's all taken care of if one
> installs kdeartwork-extras from Extras.

I honestly appreciate the replies/suggestions.  Thanks.  Unfortuntately  
(a) all of the packages you mention are already installed, and (b)  
several other users (root, adm, 'real' user id's, etc.) DO NOT  
experience the problem - the screensavers show up just fine in the  
config tool.  That's why I think it's some stoopid hooman trick which I  
have inadvertantly added to my environment.

I had also tried variously:

a) removing the [ScreenSaver] section from my
    ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc file altogether;
b) just removing the defines (X=* lines) in that section but leaving
    the "[ScreenSaver]" line by itself; and
c) removing the file completely.

(Naturally I exited my X session and did the changes in console (text)  
mode and blew away all of the tmp files in /tmp and /var/tmp and got  
rid of ALL sockets I had lying around after exiting. Nothing changed  
the behavior. When that didn't work, I tried changing/deleting the file  
while X was running - it didn't help. :-(

Considering that I also have one other problem (kde keeps diddling my  
menu system every time I log in, unfortunately in ways that screw up  
other things), I suspect that I'm going to have to bite the bullet and  
blow away EVERTHING in my home dir and start over, putting thins back  
one at a time until I find what the problem is.  Sigh.

- Thanks

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william w. austin                               waustin at speakeasy.net
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