xscreensaver

Net Llama! netllama at linux-sxs.org
Fri Jan 17 15:53:45 CET 2003


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:09:47 -0500 (EST)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > Well, this has nothing to do with XFCE.  At any rate, which version of
> > xscreensaver is this?  Which user are you attempting this as?
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> >
> > > When I try and start the xscreensaver-demo program daemon,
> > > I get the error msg:
> > >
> > > The xscreensaver daemo did not start up properly,
> > > Please check your $PATH and permissisions.
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       713427 Jan 12 07:31 /usr/local/bin/xscreensaver-demo
> > >
> > > I have competly compiled the xscreen objects from source with no problems.
> > > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > >
> Lonnie
>
>    xscreensaver-4.00.tar & xfce .18. You would be correct at not being an xfce problem, I just knew I would get beter help there, sorry I should have expressed that first. I do appreciate your help. The prgram starts and ask me if I want to start daemon. Whn I select start daemon, I get the error dialog. Of course the screensaver is not started.

XScreensaver-4.00 is rather old, as 4.06 was released back in July.  Which
user are you attempting this as?

Oh, and please fix your line wrap to something around 75 char/line.
thanks.

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