I borked the screensaver

[keithld]

My system is a Dual Boot with WindowsXP/Ubuntu 8.10 (Recent Ubuntu update 11/05/2008)

I left my machine sitting for a while and the screen saver came on, so I decided I wanted to see what other effects were in there... Thus I opened it up and started scrolling through them and looking for the one I wanted and while I was watching the preview they were "Flickering" like crazy then all of the sudden It locked up Ubuntu and I couldn't do anything but turn the computer off... When I started again everything worked so I checked out the Screen saver panel again and Boom, I was again locked up...

Any ideas??? I'm a Linux N00b so go easy on me and I'd need a step by step solution... :)

Many thanks,

Keith

[keithld]

**Bump**

[keithld]

Nevermind, it seems to have cleared itself up and is working as it should...


MODS, you can close or delete this thread...

[CLomax]

If you're running compiz, that might explain it. It may interfere with certain things. Try turning it off with 'metacity --replace' in the terminal and see if that makes a difference. To turn compiz back on, 'compiz --replace'.