[mdlug] gnome-screensaver-preferences

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 30, 2008 11:31 AM, - <otakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Got a strange issues when my screen saver started it will reboot my xwindows
> to the login screen.
>  it only does it for a single user (my main user) and it look like if I try
> to run the gnome-screensaver-preferences command to try to change it with
> the GUI it will reboot X to the login screen screen as well.  I am running
> Fedora 7  with gnome, kde screen saver looks to work ok.   it looks to have
> started after I do the normal systems update from Tuesday.
>
> Is there a text file I can directly edit or is there a way to completely
> disable the screensaver.

If you are using gnome-screensaver, it is in gconf under
/apps/gnome-screensaver.  You run gconf-editor to disable the "idle
activation" field.  I found all this out pretty easily by utilizing
ltrace on gnome-screensaver-preferences.  You should learn how to use
ltrace, strace, and other *trace friends...or systemtap
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."