Bug#402683: gnome-screensaver: cosmos saver blank on amd64

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:58 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> If I run gnome-screensaver-preferences from gnome's terminal it doesn't work, 
> but if I run that command from konsole the preferences window pops up and the 
> cosmos saver works as expected switching between the images in the cosmos 
> directory. I don't know what that means but maybe that is a clue.

It's a bit strange that gnome-screensaver-preferences doesn't run from
gnome-terminal. Are you using a GNOME desktop environment or something
else?

> > Another thing you could try is to run gnome-screensaver with --no-daemon
> > and/or --debug from a terminal and see if you can catch anything
> > interesting.
> 
> I ran those commands also but didn't see anything (that I could understand). 
> Running with --debug produces a lot of output though, would you like a 
> capture?

It's worth a shot. 

Make sure gnome-screensaver is set to use cosmos, then start it from the
terminal with --no-daemon --debug. Make sure you get some output from
when the screensaver is active. You can use gnome-screensaver-command
--activate if you don't want to wait for it to kick in.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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