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Growler
04-14-2002, 10:54 PM
I'm looking for a fast, convient way to toggle between enabling/disabling the screensaver in kde3. any suggestions??

(ps, i don't want to go through the rigamarole of bringing up the "configure desktop" dialog every time - a panel app, or even some command-line string would be great!)

rdeschene
04-14-2002, 11:26 PM
In my installation the "user"'s settings for display energy saving, etc. are in this file:

/home/user/.kde2/share/config/kcmdisplayrc

You could set your screensaver settings as you want them, then copy this file to (e.g.) kcmdisplayrc.on. Make a second copy of this file (kcmdisplayrc.off) with its settings within that file to off. Then, when you want to turn the screensaver ON:

cp /PATH/kcmdisplayrc.on /PATH/kcmdisplayrc

And to turn the screensaver OFF:

cp /PATH/kcmdisplayrc.off /PATH/kcmdisplayrc

You could make little desktop links for each of these commands, just enter the command in the "command" line.