On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:09 am, you wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I've been using xscreensaver since the day I
> received your response and really enjoy it. However, I've been playing
> around with Enlightenment the last couple of days and was wondering if
> you know how I would set up xscreensaver to autostart under this WM. I
> know there are some settings for remembering app settings in
> Enlightenment and those include autostart but they seem to be mainly
> useful with GUI apps.
>
> TIA,
> Carl
I'm not sure of the specific config files for Enlightenment as I don't use it,
however you could setup xscreensaver to start automatically for whichever
desktop with the file ~/.xinitrc (you may have to create it) in your home
directory. Here is mine;
/usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver &
export GDK_USE_XFT=1
#startgnome
startkde
#startblackbox
#startxfce
#starticewm
It is important to place the screensaver bit at the top of the file and also
use the amphersand "&" after it to make it run in the background and allow,
in this case, startkde to run (as a foreground process.....nothing after this
is read from the file).
I don't use a display manager (eg, kdm or gdm) but just use the startx
command, so I'm not exactly sure if this .xinitrc method will work the same
with them....you'll have to try for yourself. Also I'm not sure of the
starting command for enlightenment, I think its just enlightenment! So your
~/.xinitrc might look like this;
/usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver &
#startgnome
#startkde
enlightenment
If you use this method, don't forget to remove the link from
~/.kde/Autostart/xscreensaver if its still there, otherwise you'd be trying
to start xscreensaver twice if you go back to kde.
Hope this works for you,
Regards, Robin.
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