Screensaver and VNC

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Tue, 08 May 2007 14:44:51 -0500 Don Christensen wrote:

>I recently loaded Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) on a machine where I was
>previously using Redhat EL 4.x, so I was finally able to upgrade
>from Xfce 4.2.x to 4.4.0.  I've noticed a few issues that weren't
>there before.  Hopefully these aren't Ubuntu-packaging issues.
>
>The issue that bothers me the most right now is the screensaver
>config.  I run a vncserver (tightvnc 1.2.9) on this machine on
>display :2.  I start Xfce there using the following script:
>
>     #!/bin/sh
>     xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults
>     xsetroot -solid "#080060"
>
>     export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/users/djc/.config2
>     export XDG_CACHE_HOME=/users/djc/.cache2
>     unset  SESSION_MANAGER
>     startxfce4 & ;;
>
>Panel configs and such all work just fine, and do not conflict
>with the settings for my console desktop (which is dual-head
>but not Xinerama, but I think that's irrelevant for this issue).
>However, the screensaver config is shared between the VNC server
>and the console X server.  In other words, if I change the
>settings in the VNC session, they are reflected in the main
>console session.  I would like to be able to turn off the
>screensaver in the VNC session but keep it enabled in the
>console session.  This used to work just fine with 4.2.x.

Xfce doesn't do anything with xscreensaver aside from run it for you on
startup.  I don't know how it decides where to store its config data,
but changing the Xfce config locations will likely have no effect.

>I have also seen some odd dual-head behavior.  When
>I bring up the settings manager on :0.1 and click on Sound,
>the Sound window shows up on :0.0.  Screensaver, Preferred
>Applications, File Manager, and Display do the same thing,
>but the others are okay.  Also, Desktop comes up in the correct
>screen, but clicking the Behavior tab and clicking Edit Menu
>brings up the window on the wrong screen (:0.0).

File bugs?

>Finally, I've created an Xfce Menu applet in my panel that
>uses a custom menu file.  However, when I click on Edit Menu,
>it takes me to the default menu to edit, not my custom menu.

File a bug?

>Issues not-withstanding, thanks for the work on Xfce.  The
>main reason I switched from RHEL4 to Ubuntu Feisty was to
>get newer gtk2 libs that would allow me to run Xfce 4.4.x,
>and I'm generally quite happy that I did.  I was starting
>to feel left-out being stuck at 4.2.x.  :-)

Yay! ^_^

	-brian