Bug 116175 - screensavers not customizable in control-center
Summary: screensavers not customizable in control-center
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kcontrol
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: kcmscreensaver (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kscreensaver bugs tracking
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Reported: 2005-11-12 11:33 UTC by Klaus P. Kuhlemann
Modified: 2018-09-04 18:05 UTC (History)
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Description Klaus P. Kuhlemann 2005-11-12 11:33:57 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) 
OS:                Linux

After install of kde 3.5 rc1 without open dependencies, no screensaver is shown in the control-center. Xscreensavers and kscreensavers work in the earlier settings (randomly, appearence after 4 minutes), but changing of the setting is not possible, because the screensavers were not loaded in the kcontrol module. 

A workaround by downgrading the kdeartwork-xscreensaver package which was any time successful in earlier kde versions was not successful (tried to 3.4.3) in 3.5 rc1.

How to reproduce:
Set screensavers on random in kde 3.5 beta2.
Install kde 3.5 rc 1 over 3.5 beta2.
Open the screensaver-module in the kde control center.
No screensavers are shown.

Expected behaviour: Screensavers are listed, prewiew and custom settings are possible.
Comment 1 Dominic Sacré 2005-11-16 20:32:38 UTC 
Same here, using the 3.5-rc1 kubuntu packages. However this seems to affect only one user account on my system, if I login as someone else everything seems to be ok. I have no idea what's causing this though...
Comment 2 Klaus P. Kuhlemann 2005-11-18 10:45:06 UTC 
Same behaviour with the kdebase 3.5.0-3 packege from ftp.suse.com.
Comment 3 Klaus P. Kuhlemann 2005-11-22 10:31:51 UTC 
The failure is only in the user accounts, customizing of the screensavers works as root.
Comment 4 Chris Howells 2006-05-29 00:45:05 UTC 
Pleas check that the permissions of the .kde directory are as exepected (e.g. owned by the right user). Preferably chmod -R the directory.
Comment 5 Dominic Sacré 2006-05-29 01:32:38 UTC 
This doesn't seem to be a permission problem. I ran
chown -R myuser.mygroup .kde; chmod -R u+rw .kde
this doesn't seem to change anything. The list of screensavers is still empty. Using KDE 3.5.2 from Ubuntu Dapper, btw.
Comment 6 Chris Howells 2006-05-29 04:58:14 UTC 
I can't reproduce this with Dapper Drake, it works correctly for me. You said it worked with a different user, so I guess something is corrupted, but I have no idea what could cause it.
Comment 7 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:05:10 UTC 
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Kcontrol has been replaced by System Settings in Plasma. Please give the latest version of that a try, and open a new bug in "systemsettings" if you continue to have an issue. Thank you!