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Whence is XScreenSaver getting a lock request when I close the laptop lid?
I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 4) on which I'm running Debian 12 and a fairly minimal X11 setup with fvwm2 as a window manager and a few other programs, including xscreensaver, started from my ....
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Change the screensaver every few minutes
Is it possible to change the screensaver randomly every, say, 5 minutes?
I mean that once the screensaver starts, it picks one at random, and after a few minutes, change the screensaver to another ...
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xscreensaver doesn't run on one of two vnc sessions
Can anyone help identify the problem and solution to this:
I have a linux box on which I have two vncserver sessions running. They were spawned as follows:
> vncserver :1
New 'hostname:1 (user)' ...
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configure warns that installed libraries are missing
I hope this is an appropriate forum for this question. I'm trying to learn the "configure, make, make install" workflow that seems to be well-known Linux convention. I am trying to apply this to ...
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Debian XFCE screen locking and session logout
I am using Debian 9, kernel 4.9.0-1 and xfce 4.12.3 and I have a problem that after I lock the screen and close the lid of my laptop and later open the lid I will be prompted with the session login (...
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How to force xscreensaver to stay on top?
I am building web kiosek and I am using matchbox as window manager and xscreensaver. My problem is that I need in background restart web browser, but when xscreensaver goes to blank and browser is ...
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Which xscreensaver program was run last?
I use XScreensaver to lock my screen with all screensavers enabled in a random rotation. I often come back to my laptop and wonder which screensaver I was just looking at (to configure the options for ...
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How do I safely kill xscreensaver from a script/the command line?
I'm using a Linux (RHEL6) workstation. I have a small script I wrote which locks and unlocks the screen via xscreensaver when I connect or disconnect my USB thumb drive, which effectively turns it ...
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How to make xscreensaver turn off the backlight only when explicitly locked
Is it possible to set up XScreensaver so that it would turn the LCD backlight off only when I lock the screen by hand?
I thought it must be controlled by the "Quick Power-off in Blank Only Mode", but ...
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How to disable gnome "Blank screen"
I am using SUSE Linux with gnome-2. My screensaver runs for 5 minutes and the screen goes blank after that. I want to disable the "Blank screen".
I tried the following commands:
$ setterm -blank 0
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How can I make the XAnalogTV xscreensaver fill my screen?
I recently installed xscreensaver, as well as the additional/extra screensavers. Many of the OpenGL ones function correctly, going fullscreen as expected. However, for some reason, the XAnalogTV ...
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Why does xscreensaver not allow me to enter my password?
I'm running the latest version of LUbuntu (just downloaded and install this week). This morning when my computer woke up the xscreensaver dialog popped up saying "Authentication failed". However, it ...
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Run xscreensaver whenever the lid is closed
How can I run xscreensaver whenever the lid is closed? I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with the awesome window manager.
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Cannot resolve dependencies when trying to install gnome-libs or xscreensaver on linux
I am a linux noob and am trying to install ORacle10g on RHEL5 but am running into difficulties on the requirements stage. The only 2 packages I require is gnome-libs and xscreensaver.
I have ...
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