How to start xscreensaver automatically when starting XFCE?

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Fri Jan 7 08:19:23 CET 2005


Remco Lubbers wrote:
...
> 
>> >Not for me :-(
> 
> 
>> >I also use gdm. If I don't use gdm, starting xfce from runlevel 3,
>> >xscreensaver gets started.
>> [snip]
>> >Anybody have a tip?
> 
> 
> First of:
> - I use Lunar-Linux, kernel 2.4.28, lunar patched, completely
> up-to-date
> - I use XFce 4.1.99.2
> - I use gdm 2.6.0
> - I'm not very grafically oriented ;-)
> 

Hoi Remco,

It's a lunar problem. Someone (yeah, me) screwed up the gdm .desktop 
file. It starts xfce4-session directly, instead of startxfce4.

Quick solution: edit /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/xfce.desktop and replace the 
Exec=xfce4-session with Exec=startxfce4.

	Jasper



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