Having moved from xfce to fvwm2 I now no longer seem to have a screensaver. xscreensaver is installed on my system but the manual pages don't make it clear how to actually run it. What's the 'normal' way of running it? -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
Having moved from xfce to fvwm2 I now no longer seem to have a screensaver. xscreensaver is installed on my system but the manual pages don't make it clear how to actually run it. What's the 'normal' way of running it?
xscreensaver -no-splash (or at least, that's how I run it for ion3, I really should get round to adding it to the startup scripts :) Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDsG2dEh8oWxevnjQRAu3lAJ4pDSc0q5DZR3458tcphpKYWw8VeQCfVJbJ 7cQNvPbVZsunUeQQcBlON5o= =R8q/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 10:24:29PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
Having moved from xfce to fvwm2 I now no longer seem to have a screensaver. xscreensaver is installed on my system but the manual pages don't make it clear how to actually run it. What's the 'normal' way of running it?
xscreensaver -no-splash
(or at least, that's how I run it for ion3, I really should get round to adding it to the startup scripts :)
Ah, yes, what I actually meant was where do you run it from if you see what I mean. I.e. it seems a bit stupid to have to run it 'manually' from a command prompt. Where do you put the 'xscreensaver -no-splash' command? -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 10:24:29PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
Having moved from xfce to fvwm2 I now no longer seem to have a screensaver. xscreensaver is installed on my system but the manual pages don't make it clear how to actually run it. What's the 'normal' way of running it?
xscreensaver -no-splash
(or at least, that's how I run it for ion3, I really should get round to adding it to the startup scripts :)
Ah, yes, what I actually meant was where do you run it from if you see what I mean. I.e. it seems a bit stupid to have to run it 'manually' from a command prompt. Where do you put the 'xscreensaver -no-splash' command?
I would suggest putting the command in $HOME/.xinitrc, but looking at my ubuntu system it doesn't have one. Has it been deprecated or something? beb -- Boots... Kitty, kitty!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 beb <ben@psychoferret.co.uk> wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 10:24:29PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
Having moved from xfce to fvwm2 I now no longer seem to have a screensaver. xscreensaver is installed on my system but the manual pages don't make it clear how to actually run it. What's the 'normal' way of running it?
xscreensaver -no-splash
(or at least, that's how I run it for ion3, I really should get round to adding it to the startup scripts :)
Ah, yes, what I actually meant was where do you run it from if you see what I mean. I.e. it seems a bit stupid to have to run it 'manually' from a command prompt. Where do you put the 'xscreensaver -no-splash' command?
I would suggest putting the command in $HOME/.xinitrc, but looking at my ubuntu system it doesn't have one. Has it been deprecated or something?
Ubuntu uses gdm, gdm uses the wrapper script of doom to start an xsession... anyways... If you're using fvwm2, probably ~/.xsession would be the file you're looking for, just before it starts fvwm2 put: xscreensaver -no-splash& That should cover it. (I still type it manually when I login, still really must get round to adding it to the system ;) Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDscJuEh8oWxevnjQRApzVAJsF6rneyJKqyPpbCertQBG84Pjc3ACeNnBk OUS6ntfN/8GXFPrnYV8/QCo= =ILyX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:38:38PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
If you're using fvwm2, probably ~/.xsession would be the file you're looking for, just before it starts fvwm2 put:
xscreensaver -no-splash&
That should cover it.
Excellent, absolutely right, I'd just forgotten where fvwm2 was run from (that's my excuse anyway!). Thanks. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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