On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, g wrote: > i have gone back thru old post and tried again to locate just where kde hides > config for locking desktop, it still evades. I did find, rather someone on the list told me, but it didn't matter. Thank you for the effort. I discovered the program: /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver . I have no idea why it was running on a KDE desktop: My desktop has a captital K stepping in a gear in the lower left corner. >From another virtual terminal, xwininfo -tree -root showed me a 1280x1024 window named gnome-screensaver. I couldn't xkill it, but ps gave me its process ID. As a stopgap, I copied it to another name, removed the original, and made an empty file with all-zero permission bits. Presumably this will cause me trouble at update time. > in a previous post, i suggested 1 -> 4, you tried 1, 2. no joy, which leaves; > > 3) r & r kde. > 4) someone else this list | kde 'tech list' | read source. > > now, i would suggest skip #3. there was no 4-a. i doubt you want to go thru > 4-c. I didn't understand r & r anyway. > so best bet would be 4-b. if that fails, then return to 3) r & r kde. > > 5, which i did not want to mention, if 3 does not work, would be r & r 'x'. > > fedora list is where kde 'hackers' hang out. > > i do believe that you will get a favorable response from kde as that is where > actual 'writers' for kde hang out and they do respond to post. > > i do wish i could have helped you find a solution, but it was not meant to be. > > so, from my firefox bookmarks: > > K Desktop Environment = http://www.kde.org/ > > K Desktop Environment - KDE Mailing Lists = http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/ > > another suggestion, if you want stable, 'centos' or 'scientificlinux'. i tried > 'centos' a few kernels back, removed it after about 10 minutes of wading thru. > > at that time, it just was not what i needed, so i am now going to install > 'scientificlinux'. These are other distros, right? I'd read of scientificlinux lately, but don't remember where. > with 'higher level of minds' that are involved with 'fnal' and 'cern', i do > believe 'scientificlinux' will be more to what i need and have been looking > for. > > good luck to you in finding a solution and even more so at ndus. Thanks. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called Software." -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list