Swiftjay
October 17th, 2010, 01:52 PM
K, so here's what happened.
I wanted to get a screensaver as my background so I installed xscreensaver didn't work out to the way I wanted to so I removed it
apt-get remove xscreensaver then it asked for some other packages to be removed so I did apt-get autoremove
xscreensaver was still there working instead of gnome-screensaver so I did a command search to find folders of xscreensaver and remove them
whereis xscreensaver and it did remove them, but gnome-screensaver still doesn't start up.
i've tried this command gnome-Message: screensaver-command --activate but I get this error:
Message: Screensaver is not running!
I've tried googling for a way to start gnome-screensaver in terminal but no joy, anyone know how to get this to start.
I wanted to get a screensaver as my background so I installed xscreensaver didn't work out to the way I wanted to so I removed it
apt-get remove xscreensaver then it asked for some other packages to be removed so I did apt-get autoremove
xscreensaver was still there working instead of gnome-screensaver so I did a command search to find folders of xscreensaver and remove them
whereis xscreensaver and it did remove them, but gnome-screensaver still doesn't start up.
i've tried this command gnome-Message: screensaver-command --activate but I get this error:
Message: Screensaver is not running!
I've tried googling for a way to start gnome-screensaver in terminal but no joy, anyone know how to get this to start.