KDE Slideshow Screensaver Setup Broken

[Hartwig Flamm]

geneSmith wrote:
> I tried to setup the slideshow screen saver under kde and when I do the 
> "setup" I get no dialog for selecting the location of the files to cycle 
> through. In fact, after clicking on "setup" button, it remains disabled, 
> even if I go to another screen saver, e.g., BSOD. You have to move to 
> another configuration category and then back to screen savers before the 
> "setup" button is enabled again after selecting it for slideshow. 
> (Slideshow seems to work ok under RH 7.2 when I last used it.) Looked on 
> kde and fedora bugzilla and saw nothing on this. Anyone else see this 
> problem?
> 
> Tks,
> -gene

> -- 
> Lit up like Levy's


I managed to solve that by providing the Screen saver with a setup file.
Copy the following data to a file named 
$HOME/.kde/share/config/kslideshow.kssrc
------------<Cut Here>----------------
[KFileDialog Settings]
Preview Size=60
Recent Files=/usr/share/backgrounds/images/
ShowPreviews=false
ViewMode=SmallColumns

[KFileDialog Speedbar]
Speedbar IconSize=32

[Settings]
Delay=60
Directory=$HOME/
PrintName=false
RandomPosition=false
ShowRandom=true
SubDirectory=true
ZoomImages=false
------------<Cut Here>----------------

You might have to restart KDE (log out - log in) to get the Config Dialog working.

I don't think that a lock-up should be the "standard behavior" of any program that can't find it's config file.

so long,

-- 

		Hartwig Flamm

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