XScreensaver won't load on startup?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Andrew Conkling wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:12 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>Andrew Conkling wrote:
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>>>I'm using the default xinitrc on my system, but xscreensaver won't load:
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>>># 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.
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>>>Any ideas why this isn't working?
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>>Did you try running xscreensaver from a terminal?  It might print some 
>>output that can tell you what's wrong...
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>Sorry B,
>I meant to include that it works fine once I run the config program (it
>asks to start the daemon).  So no, I don't think anything's wrong with
>xscreensaver itself.
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Anything in ~/.xsession-errors about it?

    -b