[K12OSN] screen savers

[Marc Fromm]

I created a new user and logged in as the new user on one of the
terminals.
I clicked on Desktop Preferences Screensaver.
The XScreensaver windows opens, but no screensavers are available to
select. The box that would normally list them is blank.

I checked the files in the home directory of a terminal/user that has
screen savers available. There is a file called .xscreensaver. In that
file there is a "programs" section with the names of the screen savers
that appear in the selection box. The terminal/user that doesn't have
any screen savers to select has the .xscreensaver file, but the
"program" section has no files listed. If I add a screen saver file name
to the "program" area in the .xscreensaver file, that screen saver is
then in the list on the terminal/user that previously had no screen
savers.

It looks like when a new user logs in, the .xscreensaver file that gets
created in the user's home directory is not getting the list of
available screen savers.


Marc Fromm
Information Technology Specialist II
Financial Aid Department
Western Washington University
Phone: 360-650-3351
Fax:   360-788-0251

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Barry R Cisna
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:33 PM
To: K12LTSP
Subject: [K12OSN] screen savers

Hi Marc,

The terminal should not make any difference as far as screen saver
availability. Try and add a new user to your server,just name it "
userone". Now log into your new terminal as userone. I bet the
screensaver selection will show up. it sounds like maybe whatever user
you are logged in as, has hosed this users home settings? if this works
do the following for the user in question in a terminal on the server.:

../opt/ltsp/templates/k12linux/reset-default-desktop usernoscreensaver

This will reset this users desktop and hopefully "see" the screensaver
list now.

Take Care,

Barry Cisna



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