[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 #26 from Jarno Suni <8 at iki.fi>  2009-02-10 13:32:27 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> What on multi-user installs? What if I have a user using Xfce with
> gnome-screensaver, another using Xfce with xscreensaver, another using GNOME,
> another using KDE, …

Different Xfce users could use custom xinitrc (or some other scripts) under
their home directory; such scripts should override system-wide conventions.

I don't understand how Gnome ans KDE users are involved.

> really, who wants to lock the screen at
> login anyway?

There are some bug reports against GDM to allow locking on automatic/timed
login. Such a feature might be handy especially with old hardware not to have
to wait after giving a password. Hibernate does not work with all hardware...

> It already exists. It's /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc. No need to seperate that to 
> yet another script. We already have xdg-screensaver and xflock4.

I just thought it would be easier to edit a separate script than xinitrc.

> Sure, having each and every user edit scripts in /usr/bin is really better than
> autodetection…

Well, scripts could be in /usr/local/bin, too ;) Or under users' home like
mentioned earlier. Autodetection is impossible to do in general case. Anyway,
that is more matter of Bug 4417.

> By the way, I know there are some levels in the parallel startup. All apps
> starting at one level must have be run before next level is started. So it can
> easily fix the run+lock problem. I don't know if there's documentation on it,
> at least there is xfce4-session code. 

Thanks for the hint. If autostart will be used, better to do it in the first
level. And possible locking in the second.

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