Where is xfce4-screensaver started

[Jarno Suni]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 11:18 PM MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure what the xscreensaver version was, and it was not the latest
> and greatest, but after I had to install Xubuntu 21.10 so I could run
> in on newer hardware than 20.04 could handle, I noticed that
> xscreensaver would occasionally just die (despite a crontab-run script
> to check and restart it hourly).

That is strange. It has version 5.45.

> That seemed to improve when I replaced the driver on my video card,
> but after that, xscreensaver would activate as usual, display a slide
> in the slideshow for about 5 seconds and then it faded to sold gray
> until the next one came up.  I gave up on it and went back to
> xfce4-screensaver.  This works beautifully, and I don't need any
> crontab entries to restart it (that I have seen so far). My only
> remaining issue is that there are no controls in xfce4-screensaver
> that I can see to select a time for each slide to display.  It seems
> to be hardwired at 10 seconds, and I'd prefer more like 30 (with a
> control to let me choose the display time). I posted about this in the
> Xubuntu email list, no replies yet.

I don't know what you mean by slideshow. Do you mean the Cycle After
setting in Xscreensaver preferences?