Questions tagged [xscreensaver]
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How to disable screen off in Debian?
My screen are darkening every 20 or some minutes. It was originally xscreensaver installed, but nothing changed after I removed it. This behavior very annoying when I am trying to see some movie.
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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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What is the command to lock the X screen without blanking the display?
Years ago (decades?), I used a command that turned the mouse into a padlock icon and prevented clicking or typing, but you could still see the programs that were running. You could blindly type your ...
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Custom settings in gnome-screensaver .desktop files
I'm trying to run a xscreensaver application through gnome-screensaver engine with some custom options.
Since gnome-screensaver doesn't offer a simple GUI that would help to tweak a particular ...
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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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can't get xscreensaver GUI to work
I have downloaded and installed the xscreensaver source code but I can't get to xscreensaver-demo to set it up. here's everything in a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxg5SpIrv08&feature=...
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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 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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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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Require password when returning from sleep: Opensuse Leap 15, budgie-desktop
When I wake my laptop from a suspended state, there is no password prompt. I'd instead like to require a password to use the laptop.
I've looked in Settings > Power and Settings > Privacy but these ...
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Fedora 27 LXDE closing lid doesn't lock the screen (selinux acpid xscreensaver-command)
I've installed acpid and setup an event for lid close which works in debug mode, however I cannot get it to work when acpid is started by systemd.
I used the suggestions here to configure acpid
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How to use Gnome Lockscreen instead of xscreensaver Lockscreen
I am using Xscreensaver in my Fedora 28. I was using it only because Apple Aerial Screensaver can be added as a screensaver to it.
But the login screen of xscreensaver is ugly and doesnt go with the ...
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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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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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