Bug 93045

Summary: Screensaver doesn't start automatically
Product: [Unmaintained] kscreensaver Reporter: Martin Tsachev <kde-bugs>
Component: generalAssignee: kscreensaver bugs tracking <kscreensaver-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Martin Tsachev 2004-11-10 20:12:09 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6) /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.4-r1/work/gcc-3.3.4/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/info --enable-shared --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu --with-system-zlib --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-threads=posix --enable-long-long --disable-checking --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-cstdio=stdio --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/include/g++-v3 --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --disable-nls --disable-multilib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=generic 
OS:                Linux

Screensaver starts automatically initially but after a few times of use it doesn't do that.

I have these settings:

[x] Start automatically after 5 mins
[x] Require password to stop after 60 seconds
[x] Make aware of power management
Comment 1 Chris Howells 2004-11-10 21:42:15 UTC
please give me the otput of the 'xset q' command by running it in a terminal such as konsole.
Comment 2 Chris Howells 2004-11-10 21:42:37 UTC
please give me the otput of the 'xset q' command by running it in a terminal such as konsole.
Comment 3 Martin Tsachev 2004-11-11 11:16:10 UTC
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  auto repeat delay:  250    repeat rate:  30
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffdfffdfe5ef
                        ffffffffffffffff
                        ffffffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  20/10    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,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript,/usr/local/share/fonts/fonts,/data/misc/fonts
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 0    Suspend: 1800    Off: 3600
  DPMS is Disabled
Font cache:
  hi-mark (KB): 5120  low-mark (KB): 3840  balance (%): 70
File paths:
  Config file:  /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  Modules path: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
  Log file:     /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Comment 4 Joe 2004-11-19 00:11:52 UTC
I have the same issue as well, under SuSE 9.2 and when I used their rpms to upgrade to KDE 3.3 under SuSE 9.1. Version 3.3 under 9.2.  
My current settings are 10 min for screen saver, 60 sec for password required, power management enabled. All DPMS options are set to 20 min. I can see just from this file that the gui front end is not setting the DPMS right. Also, if I set the screen saver to come on after a minute, it will.
Here is my xset -q:
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  auto repeat delay:  250    repeat rate:  30
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffdfffdfe5ef
                        ffffffffffffffff
                        ffffffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  20/10    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  65535
Font Path:
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled,/opt/kde3/share/fonts
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 600    Suspend: 1200    Off: 1800
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On
File paths:
  Config file:  /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  Modules path: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
  Log file:     /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Comment 5 Jonathan Clark 2005-01-22 11:40:03 UTC
Same problem for me. This started happening after I upgraded X11 and gentoo switched me from XFree86 to Xorg. Is that a common thread? For what it is worth, here is my xset -q:

Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  auto repeat delay:  250    repeat rate:  30
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fa9fffffffdffdff
                        ffffffffffffffff
                        ffffffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  20/10    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  65535
Font Path:
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 1200    Suspend: 1800    Off: 2400
  DPMS is Disabled
File paths:
  Config file:  /etc/X11/XF86Config
  Modules path: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
  Log file:     /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Comment 6 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-01-30 00:45:54 UTC
Another me too.  I hope KDE 3.4 ships with a screensaver that works on Gentoo.
Comment 7 Oswald Buddenhagen 2007-04-13 10:37:44 UTC
another one ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75254 ***