Bug 74455
| Summary: | cannot remove screensavers | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Konstantin Olchanski <olchansk> |
| Component: | xscreensaver | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-09-24 19:51:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I believe you can switch of specific screensavers: run xscreensaver-demo and uncheck all the boxes near the screensaver list (or do the equivalent modifications to .xscreensaver, if you know the format) a simpler workaround is to defeat rpm: rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/* The most supported way to do this would be to configure the screensaver to blank the screen only. |
We run cpu-intensive production jobs on our RedHat Linux 7.3 workstations and have a problem with fancy screensavers consuming too much CPU, slowing down the production jobs. I was able to remove the KDE screensavers (rpm --erase kdeartwork-screensavers-3.0.0-4), but cannot remove the xscreensaver ones: [root@sam root]# rpm --erase xscreensaver error: removing these packages would break dependencies: xscreensaver is needed by control-center-1.4.0.1-31 Maybe this package should be split into an unremovable base (with the benign "blank screen" screen saver) and removable "fancy" screensavers? K.Olchanski