Under suse 11.2 and kde 4.3.1 the configured screensaver does not automatically start . In control center I checked autostart in 2 minutes. But nothing…
The power settings are all as after the fresh installation.
xset q says:
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002
auto repeat delay: 660 repeat rate: 25
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 30/10 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/URW,/usr/share/fonts/Speedo,/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/truetype,/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,built-ins,/home/cb/.fonts
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
Font cache:
Server does not have the FontCache Extension
Tried different screensavers without success.
Any clues? Debugging possibilities, known bugs, etc?
The screensaver is usually an issue for users to switch the darn thing off! It does work and I am not aware of bugs.
Personally I avoid it like the plague, after install I turn all that screen saving and power saving rubbish off.
To your issue: What happens when you press the Test button.
You know the screensaver will only start if the computer is idle?
With fresh kde user settings (added a new user), specifically with 7 13 19 and energie saving enabled in control panel -> advanced -> system management -> display -> energy control the screensaver works as desired. However entering 0 0 0 (deactivated) with energy saving enabled seems to trigger the saver not to start.
Why are there such dependencies to the automatic start of the screen saver? This is a bug, if you are asking me.
Sorry for the imprecise naming of the control elements, I see them currently only in german.
Check
launcher > Look & Feel > Screen Saver : Start Automatically, After ? min.
launcher > Computer Administration > Display > Power Control : Enable display power management, Standby after ? min.
Both of mine were set at 7 minutes. So in 7 minutes my monitor would go blank.
Set standby to a LARGER number than you set your screen saver to start.
I’m just glad I figured this out before I placed a bug report ;-)>
> Set standby to a LARGER number than you set your
> screen saver to start.
This behavior is as desired and clear. If the display is off, then no screen saver needs to start.
But having in ‘launcher > Computer Administration > Display > Power Control : Enable display power management’ checked, i.e., power management enabled and all timeouts set to 0 as described in my last posting, the screen saver does not start. 0 should have the special meaning of ‘never’ and this is per definition larger than my screen saver timeout of 5 minutes.
As implemented, this is a BUG in KDE 4.x in my opinion:
The screen saver starter should treat a timeout of 0 as ‘never’ and do not something like a simple > comparison.
KDE 3.x, e.g., in opensuse 10.3, works as desired
As a workaround I have unchecked ‘Enable display power management’ and thus DPMS completely set to off. And voila, my screen saver works as desired.
However, this is not my intention: I only would like to set the timeouts to 0, since I like it to manually turn my display via DPMS off, e.g., with ‘xset dpms force off’ .
Maybe someone could verify this behavior and knows where concretely to report this BUG such that it will be repaired?