FC5T3: Why only so few screensavers available to choose in in KDE?

[Thomas Taylor]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 06:07, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> On 2/25/06, Dariusz J. Garbowski <thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For some reason I can see only very limited number of screensavers (21
> > in total) in KDE Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Screen Saver
> > panel. I know there are plenty more installed since choosing "Random"
> > option will result in screensaver I cannot choose manually. Worse yet,
> > half of the available ones are OpenGL (10) that do not seem to work on
> > my hardware :( I have a full list on FC3 box but not on FC5t3...
> >
> > Is this supoosed to be this way? Why?
>
> Not real sure why your listing is shorter but I do know that if you
> choose "random" screen saver all the files located in the xscreensaver
> directory will be used, randomly, even if they are not listed as
> "choosable."
>

Yes, but some of us want to be able to choose from the "whole" list, not just 
the very limited list displayed.  My list is also shorter.


Tom

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