which daemon is running, gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver?

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:11:24PM +0530, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> Sorry for the cross-post. I dunno where this query might be relevant
> hence posting to both.
> 
>  I have a mixed ubuntu & xubuntu Intrepid (8.10) setup. Which means
> sometimes I login to ubuntu while sometimes I login to xubuntu.
> 
> While in Ubuntu if there is no activity either by mouse or by the
> keyboard, the monitor goes into power-safe mode. in xubuntu it
> doesn't.
> 
> Now I do not know why it doesn't do this. So I wanna find the following :-
> 
> a. Which daemon of the two are running atm, is there a way to find out.
>         From what I know its
>        1. gnome-power-preferences
>        2. xscreensaver-demo

ps aux | grep xscreensaver

> 
> b.  Is there any other tool or any other configuration I need to be
> aware of while in xubuntu?

maybe ask xubuntu people directly?

In Xfce, at the moment, the script running the screensaver at startup
first check for gnome-screensaver and then for xscreensaver. So if you
have both installed it should run gnome-screensaver.

The “locking stuff” does the same thing (meaning that if you have
gnome-screensaver installed, but xscreensaver running, it wont work, see
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3770 for more info.
> 
> Looking forward to comments, suggestions on the same.

None of this is Xfce specific, so maybe it wasn't the correct list to
ask stuff on (faster answer on a xubuntu list, I mean).
-- 
Yves-Alexis