Gerhard Magnus wrote, at 06/21/2010 08:08 AM +9:00: > I'm running FC13 with a gnome desktop and would like to have the new > screensaver start automatically when I log on. > > What happens now is that I have to start the configuration gui manually > using System --> Preferences --> Screensaver. I then get the message: > "The XScreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on display ":0.0". > Launch it now?" Then replying OK starts it and the show is fine. > > Using gnome-session-properties I have shut off the old gnome screensaver > program so that it won't start up at login and turned on Xscreensaver. > But I still have to start it manually. > Unfortunately currently xscreensaver won't start if gnome-screensaver is installed, even if you have disabled gnome-screensaver autostart (more correctly, /usr/libexec/xscrensaver-autostart exits with status 0 immediately if /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver is found), to avoid potential confusion. You have to remove gnome-screensaver completely to use xscreensaver-autostart.desktop. Regards, Mamoru -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
