[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 3578] option to not start xscreensaver when starting xfce4

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http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3578





--- Comment #31 from Jarno Suni <8 at iki.fi>  2009-04-01 10:37:55 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> Frankly, I don't want Xfce to support anything but xscreensaver out of the box.
>  It's the only actual secure, mostly audited screensaver app out there. 
> gnome-screensaver is crap in this regard, ditto for xlock and xlockmore.  I
> don't know anything about KDE's screensaver, though.

Can you give any references that show that gnome-screensaver and xlock are
insecure?

> If people want to use something else, IMHO they're on their own.  I don't
> really want to provide an explicit GUI for setting the screensaver, but I'm ok
> with making it possible for knowledgeable users to change it without having to
> hack the source.

But wouldn't the "preferred desktop apps" framework have GUI for preferences?

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