From kde-bugs-dist  Wed Dec 29 02:24:22 1999
From: scott fagg <sfagg () powerup ! com ! au>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 02:24:22 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#2457: multiple screen savers running after chaning settings
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-bugs-dist&m=94643480625308


Package: kdebase
Version: 1.1.2

Each time i make changes to my screen savers settings, another copy of the
screen saver is started. The extra instances of the kss file seem to be
started when clicking on the OK button in the Display Settings dialog box.
(kcmdisplay) Clicking the APPLY button doesn't appear to start new
instances of the screen saver.

After changing the settings for the SLIP screen saver 2 times (clicking OK
between changes and restarting kcmdisplay)  and then switching to the
SWARM screen saver, the output of a 'ps auxww | grep kss' command shows :

[sfagg@calvin ~]$ ps auxww | grep kss
sfagg     1315  0.1  0.7  5620   220   1 R N  10:54   0:08
/opt/kde/bin/kslip.kss -delay 5 -install -corners iiii -nice 12 
sfagg     1387  0.0  0.7  5620   224   1 S    11:14   0:01
/opt/kde/bin/kslip.kss -delay 5 -install -corners iiii -nice 0 
sfagg     1408  0.0  0.6  5620   208   1 S N  11:16   0:01
/opt/kde/bin/kslip.kss -delay 5 -install -corners iiii -nice 3 
sfagg     1555  8.4 11.3  5636  3512   1 S N  12:19   0:01
/opt/kde/bin/kswarm.kss -delay 5 -install -corners iiii -nice 3 

On my PC (P150) i'm using:
KDE 1.1.2 (RPMs)
RedHat 5.1 with kernel = 2.2.13
XFree86 S3 X server

This problem appears to have been around for some time. I noticed this
a long time ago when using earlier versions of KDE. 

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