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Message boards :
BOINC Manager :
No Graphics since update to 5.8.17
(Message 10787)
Posted 8 Jun 2007 by ptahian Post: I have not been able to reproduce this. I have a few questions for those of you reporting problems: Yes. (2) You can only use the Show Graphics button when the Activity Menu is set to "Run Always", otherwise moving or clicking the mouse will suspend the application so the Show Graphics button will be grayed out. Do you have the Activity Menu set to "Run Always"? Yes. The defect occurs with both "Run Always" and "Run based on Preferences". (3) Are both of you saying that you are seeing both the disabling of the Show Graphics button and the screensaver failing? I'm saying that too. <smile> (4) When the screensaver kicks in, do you see "Connecting to BOINC Client" for a short time, or is the screen blank from the very start? Yes, the Connecting message comes on for approximately 1 second. Then the message "This BOINC installation does not support screensaver graphics". After about 10 seconds, I'm now (see below) seeing the text message displaying two of my four projects' current task progress. (5) Set the Activity Menu to "Suspend" or set "Snooze" from the BOINC icon menu, and then start the screensaver either using the hot corner or by waiting for the timeout. Do you see "BOINC is currently suspended" or a blank screen? After the connecting message, the "BOINC is current suspended" comes up. (6) Have you checked the Screen Saver System Preferences to make sure that the BOINCSaver is selected and the timeout, hot corners and "Options/Go to blank screen" and are all properly set? What happens if you turn off the "Go to blank screen" checkbox? Yes they are set correctly. Toggling the "Go to blank screen" does not affect the defect. I tried moving the screen saver location from /Library/Screen Savers to /System/Library/Screen Saver. I also noticed that the group ownership did not match the other screen savers (admin for Boinc, wheel for the standard screen savers) so I changed all the contents of Boinc screen saver to match. After rebooting, I noticed the change to the progress info, but it's possible I just never waited the 10 seconds for that to kick in previously. I don't believe I initially installed BOINC (5.8.17 for MacOS 10.4.9 on MacIntel) as a service. I think I found some manual instructions for changing a plist file. Core functionality has been problem free. Thanks for your assistance. hope it helps! Incidentally, I notice that the text task-status is not including my fourth project (Seti@Home). Climate@Home is the 3rd listed -it shows as "Project does not support screensaver graphics". -Mds |
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