getting xscreensaver to run.
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 4 19:08:22 UTC 2010
On 1/2/10 8:48 PM, George Hartzell wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke writes:
> > On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 15:31 -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
> > > I rebuilt my desktop machine over the holidays (Mac Pro, running
> > > RELENG_8 with MBR based ZFS mirrored drives, etc...) using the current
> > > version of ports.
> > >
> > > I chose to install xscreensaver instead of the gnome screen saver
> > > (which is how I usually do things), but I can't seem to get it to
> > > start. This is how I used to run and I don't know what I've done
> > > differently.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > What's the correct way to get xscreensaver to run automagically under
> > > gnome?
> >
> > I'm not sure if this option is still valid. You might try simply adding
> > xscreensaver to the list of Startup Programs in the Startup Applications
> > capplet.
> >
> > Joe
>
> Adding it to the startup programs seems to work fine.
>
> I started doing this back in the day because I couldn't get the gnome
> screen saver to put my monitor to sleep. Does that work correctly
> these days?
I have confirmed that this is working in GNOME 2.29.
Joe
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