Re: [newbie] Xfce and the xscreensaver daemon
Derek (and Michel Clasquin too), Sorry to be so long in getting back to you. I've been away from home for a week. Your fix did the trick. Thanks!! The line in /etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc read "xscreensaver -no-splash -lock-mode &" so I removed the -lock-mode. BTW, I'm still fooling with RH7.2 and am running Xfce under that distro. RH doesn't supply it all. You can get the latest build from the Xfce website, http://www.xfce.org.; I'm using version 3.8.14c. Cheers, Terry Smith On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 07:49, Derek Jennings wrote: > 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 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xfce and the xscreensaver daemon
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xfce and the xscreensaver daemon
On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:49, Terry Smith wrote: as root, edit the file /etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc find the line that launches xscreensaver and remove the --lock-more parameter (or something like that - it's not on my system anymore so I can't check exactly). This parameter is no longer supported by xscreensaver and it causes the app to crash on startup. > 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 -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
