Today I made another interesting discovery in Fedora 10. My (somewhat) vanilla install did not present me with any other screensavers than the one called ‘Blank screen’ or whatever. A case of packages for screensavers not being installed? I thought so and went and made sure that the following packages got registered in the system:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | xscreensaver xscreensaver-base xscreensaver-extras xscreensaver-gl-base xscreensaver-gl-extras rss-glx rss-glx-kde rss-glx-xscreensaver |
Still no luck. Perhaps you have to log out and in again? Tried that, no luck. Some digging around the net revealed that you have to do a simple
1 | yum install kdeartwork-extras |
to get the screensavers. Go figure.
I hope this will help other people in need of something to enjoy while code is compiling (or the spouse is having another fit).
Thanks
Thank you Christopher for this tip.
It saved a lot of time and confusion.
I must say however that it’s rather annoying that this package is not part of the default KDE install for Fedora 10 if it’s actually needed for normal desktop functionality.
More proof I suppose that Fedora is biased towards Gnome.
Cheers.
I think you will find the package is missing in gnome also. Bloody conspiracy theorists……..tut tut
Hey! They _are_ out to get us, or at least make our lives harder. I just know it…
Anyway, thanks for the info. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there equally annoyed that this happens in Gnome too.