How to start xscreensaver automatically when starting XFCE?

glmovzs glmovzs at oxstone.com
Tue Jan 4 16:03:47 CET 2005


On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:48:57PM +0100, Alexandre Aractingi wrote:
> Le mardi 04 janvier 2005 à 14:41 +0100, glmovzs a écrit :
> > I'd like xscreensaver to be ran each time I start XFCE. I don't want it
> > to blank the screen, I just want the daemon to be running.
> > 
> > How could I do that?
> 
> On my setup /etc/X11/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc has a line for that:
> 
> # Launch xscreensaver (if available), but only as non-root user
> test $UID -gt 0 -a -z "$VNCSESSION" && xscreensaver -no-splash &
> 
> If you use your own xinitrc (in your home dir) check that you also have
> this line...
> 
> -- 
> Alexandre Aractingi <aaractingi at libertysurf.fr>

Thank you, but unfortunately I don't have any xdg directory in /etc/X11.
I use gdm as a login manager.

I added your command in $my_normal_user_home/.xinitrc and in
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, but that still doesn't work... :-/

Any clue?

Thank you.
Nicolas, Paris.

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