xScreenSaver won't launch

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Greetings,

Moved to Tumbleweed this week. Currently the screen saver only dims the screens. Trying to launch xScreenSaver Settings fails. I get a bouncing box with a red dot in it, then nothing.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241007
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.7.3
Kernel Version: 6.11.2-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 4 × AMD A12-9800 RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G
Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NV138
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 90GU0007US
System Version: ideacentre 510A-15ABR

David

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THE WAYLAND PROBLEM

Wayland is a completely different window system that is intended to replace X11. After 14+ years of trying, some Linux distros have finally begun enabling it by default. Most deployments of it also include XWayland, which is a compatibility layer that allows some X11 programs to continue to work within a Wayland environment.

Unfortunately, XScreenSaver is not one of those programs.

This is from the xscreensaver creator at XScreenSaver Manual

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Thank you for your response. I’ll have to look around for xWayland I guess.

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Option on login. Also if you want screensaver to run you must use X also option on login

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