Getting xscreensaver to load automatically

Ralph Alvy ralvy at warpmail.net
Fri Oct 31 03:59:54 CET 2003


On Thursday 30 October 2003 06:56 pm, Dan Gordon wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:01:11 -0700
>
> "Ralph Alvy" <ralvy at warpmail.net> wrote:
> > It never starts up automatically. I *always* have to start it
> > manually.
>
> In a terminal type "xscreensaver-demo" without the quotes and you will
> get all the options for xscreensaver.  In the options there is a section
> or tab to turn on start screensaver after x amount of minutes.
>
> Regards,
> Dan Gordon

I was ambiguous in that post. What I meant was that I couldn't get 
xscreensaver to *load* automatically. I know how to get it to start 
automatically after it's loaded. My last post shows how I finally got it to 
load at login.




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