The elder gods, manifesting through Mark Eggers, recently decreed:
Known problem which the KDE people consider fixed. Here is the link
and
the solution.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41941
It seems that you can coerce the X screen saver to work, but it's not
the native application.
Interesting. This is apparently a definition of "fixed" of which I was
previously unaware.
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