Where is xfce4-screensaver started

[Kai-Martin Knaak]

On  8. March 2022 Jarno Suni <sunijarno at gmail.com> wrote:

> If xfce4-screensaver is installed, it will be started even if it is
> not set in "Application Autostart" tab of  "Session and Startup"
> dialog. That breaks user's ability to configure which screensaver to
> use. So where it is started? Which project is responsible for starting
> it?

IMHO, xfwm starts xflock4, which is a fairly simple shell script that
looks for a few popular screensavers. The first one found gets started.

There are a few options to start user configured screensavers:

1) Define a global shell variable $LOCK_CMD to contain the desired
screensaver command.

2) Edit the script /usr/bin/xflock4

3) Put an alternative script in /usr/local/bin/xflock4
If the $PATH variable is defined decently, this script will take
precedence over the one in /usr/bin/ .

Hope, that helps, 

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