> Try 'xscreensaver-demo &exit'. Err that runs xscreensaver-demo and then immediately exits from the terminal session that starts it. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that?
> It will ask to restart a non running > xscreensaver service. No it won't! > Try to purge xscreensaver packages and > reinstall them again. > 'sudo apt-get purge xscreensaver* ; sudo apt-get install xscreensaver > xscreensaver-data-extra' > > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > >> I have now a big problem with xscreensaver. > >> Up to yesterday, it worked perfectly, but I had to re-install > >> Debian on my PC, and now if fails > >> when I run "xscreensaver" I get: > >> xscreensaver-systemd: 13:59:54: user bus connection failed: No > >> medium found > >> If I run "xscreensaver-demo", I get "Segmentation fault" > >> I was unable to find what changes from my previous install to the > >> new one can explain that. > >> Has anybody an idea? > >> best regards, > >> > >> Pierre Frenkiel > >> > > I found a good work around: instead of calling xscreensaver, I call > > one on the binaries provided with the program: scooter > > and that works perfectly > > I'm just curious to understand why the xscreensaver itself no more > > works... >
