Bug 51619

Summary:	ScreenSaver doesn't work
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Karl-Josef Blaser <karl-josef.blaser>
Component:	xscreensaver	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description Karl-Josef Blaser 2001-08-13 07:00:14 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)

Description of problem:
For user 'root' the screensaver cannot be activated.
The screen cannot be closed.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bildschirmschoner aktivieren
2. Warten
3. Es passiert nichts
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-08-13 11:55:06 UTC

Reassigning to xscreensaver...

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-08-13 13:35:45 UTC

This is the normal behavior.

Comment 3 Karl-Josef Blaser 2001-08-13 13:39:44 UTC

Why should this be the normally behavior?

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2001-08-13 13:42:03 UTC

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock

has most of the arguments.

Comment 5 Karl-Josef Blaser 2001-08-14 05:12:32 UTC

*** Why should i open a bug? ***


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Service Request 184771 has been Updated

Incident Number: 184771
Customer Name:   Blaser, Karl-Josef
Customer Number: 306438
Date Opened:     Jul 10, 2001 08:27
Date Changed:    Jul 16, 2001 10:04
Red Hat Owner:   Steffen

Your Red Hat product:    

RH Linux Deluxe/Intel (German) (RH30000DE)

Summary of your problem:

Bildschirm-Schomer

Description of your problem:

Warum kommt der Bildschirm-Schoner nicht, den ich als User root im X 
eingestellt habe?


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Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2001-08-14 05:17:01 UTC

Um, if the support tech directed you to open a bug, the support tech was wrong.
Sorry.