At a guess Terry I would say you are using XFce from Cooker or elsewhere because the screensaver for XFce on 8.1 worked fine for me, while the 8.2 Beta1 version gave me the same problem you have.
I found the bug. If you edit /etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc and find the line starting xscreensaver edit that line to say xscreensaver -no-splash & Then the screensaver will start next time you log on. I reported this as a bug in 8.2Beta1. Now Beta 3 is out and XFce has been taken out altogether!!! I am a bit worried about this and hope it is not because of the bugs I reported in Beta1 :-( The worst bug I found is that when xtree is open the floppy disc drive would whirr and click every 15 seconds. Xtree seems to interract badly with supermount. Disabling supermount on the floppy works around the problem. I hope Mandrake do not simply remove XFce from the distro. derek On Saturday 23 February 2002 02:49, Terry Smith wrote: > This should be a simple one. > > I, along with many others on the list, have settled in on Xfce as my > desktop manager of choice. One neat thing about Xfce is the Xscreensaver > pgm that runs with it (although you can run it with other desktops, wms, > etc.). > > From xfce you configure with xscreensaver-demo. When I do that it tells > me that the xscreensaver daemon is not running. I can execute it at that > point. > > What I'd like to do is have the daemon run on xsession initialization. I > thought I could add a line like > > xscreensaver & > > to the user's ~/.xsession file (as implied by the manual) but it doesn't > seem to work. > > So how do I automatically invoke the xscreensaver on a user's xsession > startup? > > TIA. > > Terry Smith
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