Screensaver Sluggish

John Persichilli
John Persichilli
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Topic 225889

HI every and all good persons on this forum!

About a week ago my Dell notebook computer sat idly by and off as I had a friend help me with a doctors procedure requiring a driver. So, when I was able I started the computer and it aut0matically stepped through a couple of days worth of updates. Then I tried to load BOINC with no joy, it wouldn't work. So, I decided to uninstall and try again.

After several unsuccessful days worth of effort I decided to see what else I could do. I was sent to a website that had the necessary NVIDIA driver install and I went ahead and followed the command line instructions to install a bunch of pieces, When I finished I again tried to install BOINC. Yea I thought, but wait...what? Yes, BOINC was installed, yes I entered my name and password to start Einstein@home.

After the necessary downloads I started BOINC. Here is the rub...the screensaver does not function correctly.

When the globe appears none of the controls work. When I click on the globe nothing happens, It does not get bigger nor does it rotate at a steady pace. It will turn jump and turn the globe after about 10 seconds and sits there for another 10 seconds and turn-jump again and repeats.

Here are the specifics

Computer

Astronomy 21.04.0 2021.05.24 customized using Cubic on 2021-05-24 10:37

Intel® Core™ i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz × 4

7.7 GiB

Intel® HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2)

64-bit

Windowing System - Wayland GNOME Version - 3.38.5 Disk Capacity - 1TB BOINC Manger Version - 7.16.16 (x64) wxWigdets - 3.0.5 Here is the website I used for the installation - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cuda So, any great help on how to rectify this issue will be most greatly appreciated! Regards, John Persichilli

Keith Myers
Keith Myers
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AFAIK, the screensaver is a

AFAIK, the screensaver is a X11 application which will not work using the Wayland compositor.

 

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