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Bug 41108

Summary: When logged in as root the GNOME screen saver is inoperative
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <jspanier>
Component: xscreensaverAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 7.1CC: rvokal
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Description Need Real Name 2001-05-17 15:31:23 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; MSNIA; Windows 98; DigExt)

Description of problem:
When logged in as root the GNOME screen saver is inoperative. No matter 
which settings were used it would not even perform a "Try". 

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log in with root privileges
2. Using the "GNOME Control Center" under Desktop select screensaver
3. Enable screen saver function and select a screen saver pattern and 
execute "Try"
	

Actual Results:  Immediately comes back with out executing the screen 
saver and grays out the "Try" button

Expected Results:  The appearance of the screen saver pattern

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-05-17 15:35:42 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10715 ***