[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 #24 from Jarno Suni <8 at iki.fi>  2009-02-10 11:57:09 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #23)

> The thing is, autostarted applications are way easier to edit than xinitrc, for
> the end-user. I don't know if gnome-screensaver already ship a .desktop
> autostart file, and I guess xscreensaver doesn't, but they could be shipped by
> Xfce, disabled by default, and user only has to choose which one he wants.

User should know which screensaver is installed even then. I suppose most end
users do not want to change screensaver used by the distribution. If user wants
to lock screen automaticly in automatic login, he/she has to start a
screensaver daemon before autostarted applications anyway (at least if he/she
uses gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver).

I think this bug is more about not changing a screensaver used by Xfce just by
installing one. E.g. I changed screensaver used by Xfce accidentally when I
installed LXDE desktop environment in Xubuntu (8.10). I think a separate script
could be called from xinitrc to start a screensaver daemon; the script could
have several commented out start commands (for convenience) and one
(uncommented) default start command, say "xscreensaver -no-splash &" to please
Brian J. Tarricone. That kind of script would not be so hard to edit. One could
edit xflock4 script respectively (so that it would not have to autodetect any
running daemon; see Bug 4417). This policy could be informed about in
Autostarted apps dialog or in its help.

> There's xdg-screensaver too, but it's apparently quite insecure, and basically
> falls back to xscreensver under Xfce anyway.

"xdg-screensaver lock" seems to exit after doing nothing in my Xubuntu 8.10
where I have gnome-screensaver daemon running.

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