XScreensaver won't load on startup?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Andrew Conkling wrote:

>I'm using the default xinitrc on my system, but xscreensaver won't load:
>
># Launch xscreensaver (if available), but only as non-root user
>test $UID -gt 0 -a -z "$VNCSESSION" && xscreensaver -no-splash &
>
>echo $UID produces "1000".  $VNCSESSION is empty.
>
>Any ideas why this isn't working?
>
Did you try running xscreensaver from a terminal?  It might print some 
output that can tell you what's wrong...

    -b