Bug 74455 – cannot remove screensavers

Bug 74455 - cannot remove screensavers

Summary:	cannot remove screensavers

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	xscreensaver (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2002-09-24 13:08 EDT by Konstantin Olchanski
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:31 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-09-24 15:51:38 EDT
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Description Konstantin Olchanski 2002-09-24 13:08:33 EDT

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

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmac 2002-09-24 13:42:14 EDT

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)

Comment 2 Konstantin Olchanski 2002-09-24 15:51:31 EDT

a simpler workaround is to defeat rpm:
rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/*

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2002-11-11 15:48:34 EST

The most supported way to do this would be to configure the screensaver to blank
the screen only.

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