xscreensaver invalid parameters

Jack Coates jack at monkeynoodle.org
Thu Jun 13 18:04:19 CEST 2002


On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 23:46, Christian Sparka wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone ever gotten xscreensaver working for two users at the same
> > time? I have two accounts on the same machine, one of which is logged in
> > from elsewhere using xdmcp. When the second xinitrc calls xscreensaver,
> > all xscreensaver processes are silently killed.
> 
> I have a similiar prob with xscreensaver when a second X-server is running
> on DISPLAY :1.
> I changed the xscreensaver call in my .xinitrc by adding
> -display `echo $DISPLAY`.
> This helped for me.
> 
> Christian
> 

Well, it works if I type in the xhost and xscreensaver commands at a
terminal, but if I put them in .xinitrc it doesn't work. Odd.

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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