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Fedora 10 + KDE + missing screensavers

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:

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xscreensaver
xscreensaver-base
xscreensaver-extras
xscreensaver-gl-base
xscreensaver-gl-extras
rss-glx
rss-glx-kde
rss-glx-xscreensaver

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Taking Fedora 10 for a spin

Introduction

On the Fedora project website you can find a list of new features in Fedora 10. As a long time Fedora (Core) user, reading these made me pretty excited about this tenth release.

They touted faster and more fancy booting, better printer and webcam support, improved network handling (ability to share network connections effortlessly), and many [...]

Kopete failing to connect to msn

I’ve run into a quite annoying bug in Kopete. If I start Kopete after booting everything works OK. However if I shutdown the program and try to restart it, then for some strange reason it no longer connects to the MSN-service. If I reboot the computer then everything is ok again. I’ve seen reports of [...]