[TriLUG] GUI Screensaver Froze-up Problem

[Jturena at aol.com]

My Screensaver "froze". I do not know how to fix this problem...it has 
happened in the past.

 I am running RH 8.0. (with a basic, all-default installation; in other 
words, I do not know enough about the system to "set" and change anything yet).
 I am using GNOME as my default GUI.
 By default, while using Gnome, after a preset amount of time of dis-use, a 
screensaver program will begin running.
 The program seems to run through a batch of separate distinguishable 
screensaver patterns, one after the other. 

 As the patterns are running their course, it happens that it will freeze 
during the course of its run. The keyboard and mouse lose their functionality, 
and I am left with a screensaver frozen in the middle of its pattern, with no 
reasonable recourse, that I am aware of, but to "reboot" the system. Ugh!

 I am wondering if this isn't a glitch in the particular individual 
screensaver script(?), and/or, a problem between my computer's graphic capabilities and 
the script's requirements for running.
 It seems to me that it would be such a long drawn-out process for someone 
with my limited knowledge, to fix, that I thought I would ask if this is a 
'common' problem, and what I should do about it.
 I remember this happening to me before, in a whole other Installation, I 
thought, and I only rebooted and carried on, but I know it made me very insecure 
about leaving my GUI application open, and letting it go into screensaver 
mode, for fear of it freezing up while running a screensaver-- which now it has 
done.
 I am suspecting something is wrong within the individual screensaver script 
that is running at the time it freezes up, and if I could eliminate the 
script, I would fix the problem; but I do not know how to correlate the 
picture/screensaver on the screen, with a particular script. Or it could be another 
problem...

 Anyway, it is enough to drive me to write the LUG and see if anybody knows 
what is wrong with 'whatever'.
 Thanks in advance for any helpful response.
 Meanwhile I will try and find a website with info on known Gnome Screensaver 
problems.
 Jim U.
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