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I re-installed catfood earth . . .

And, interestingly enough, when I put 'Catfood Earth Screensaver Settings', it opened up the windows screensaver settings to catfood earth; this was the same thing I had been accessing via the windows display settings options. I can see no difference.

Nevertheless, the screen saver seems to be working now, so thank you!

Don't look in screensaver settings. Click Start and then type 'Catfood Earth Screensaver Settings' and Windows will show that exact link under Apps. Run this and then test the screensaver.

Well, I've rebooted, several times, with no joy.

Within windows screen saver settings, there are two options: Catfood Earth Screensaver, and PCatfood Earth Screensaver. Hitting "preview" for either of those gives me a screensaver preview. When I hit "settings" for either of them, there's a popup box that says "Run Catfood Earth Settings to configure Catfood Earth Screensaver". Within Catfood Earth Settings, where do I find screensaver settings? Windows explorer also finds no shortcut for catfood earth screensaver settings; where in the directory structure does it reside?

Thanks!

Hi Jessie - two things to try. If you haven't already rebooted do that. If that doesn't help run the shortcut 'Catfood Earth Screensaver Settings' to try and reset the path to the screen saver. Does it work when you test from screen saver settings after both steps?

I just downloaded the 4.41.0006 update on two computers; on one, the screensaver works. On the other, nothing I've been able to do lets the screensaver work. It works in preview, but not in actuality. What do I do to fix this?

Hi Bob, it should work, might depend on the phone. First make sure that the phone is in landscape - with the launcher rotated. You might need to change a setting to make this happen. I have a Pixel and you long press the screen to get to launcher settings and then near the bottom there is an option to allow rotation.

Second, in Catfood Earth Settings, clear the option that reuses images on screen size change.

Let me know if this works.

Cool app!

Any way to get android version into landscape? Want to have on an old phone feeding a small monitor...

Haven't been here for a bit, but I never removed the screensaver, figured I'd just use it for the wallpaper, and the oddest thing happened. I walked away from the computer one day, came back, and the screensaver was on. I didn't do anything to it. I don't know if it was a Windows update that fixed it, or what, but it's been working for about a month now. Computers, ain't they wonderful?

Barry, possibly others, I'm still looking to see if there is anything I can do to help with this behavior. I haven't got any changes to try yet, but you might want to check this long thread on Windows 10 screen saver issues to see if anything helps (let me know if it does).

The Earth screensaver does not currently log anything. The log is just for the desktop wallpaper process.

It took exactly one Windows update to break the Catfood Earth screensaver- about a week, and it was sweet while it lasted. I finally had a chance to mess with it, and I've uninstalled, reinstalled, and run the Catfood Earth Screensaver Settings properly from the Start Menu- not working. I guess I'll have to try the next iteration. I don't see any error messages in the log that wern't there in 2020-

2022-10-27 11:29:04:

2022-10-27 11:29:04: Catfood Earth 4.30.3.0

2022-10-27 11:29:04: Command Line: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Catfood Software\Catfood Earth\CatfoodEarth.exe" /background

2022-10-27 11:29:04: Framework: 4.0.30319.42000

2022-10-27 11:29:04: OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0

2022-10-27 11:29:04: Render: Starting at 10/27/2022 11:29:04 AM, forceUpdate=False

2022-10-27 11:29:04: Prepare to render: Day Map, duration=00:00:00

2022-10-27 11:29:04: Prepare to render: Clouds, duration=00:00:00.0156249

2022-10-27 11:29:04: Prepare to render: Night Map, duration=00:00:00

2022-10-27 11:29:04: Render: Day Map, duration=00:00:00.3125200

2022-10-27 11:29:05: Render: Clouds, duration=00:00:00.4531566

2022-10-27 11:29:05: Render: Night Map, duration=00:00:00.5000329

2022-10-27 11:29:05: Render: Completed at 10/27/2022 11:29:05 AM, duration=00:00:01.2813344

2022-10-27 11:29:05: SetWallpaper: Failed to set wallpaper using IActiveDesktop

2022-10-27 11:29:05: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'CatfoodEarth.IActiveDesktop'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{F490EB00-1240-11D1-9888-006097DEACF9}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).

at CatfoodEarth.Utils.SetWallpaper(Image image, String path, Boolean useCustomLocation, CustomLocation customLocation)