Questions tagged [xscreensaver]
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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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Xscreensaver causing my monitors to turn off and on repeatedly when its power management features are active; how to fix?
Something weird is up with my Xscreensaver 5.15 configuration on Debian Wheezy. I have two Dell U2412M monitors hooked up to a single graphics card (one over native DVI and one over HDMI output to DVI ...
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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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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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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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Hangouts notifications appearing above xscreensaver
When my screen is locked (with XScreenSaver on Arch Linux with Xfce), popup notifications from the Hangouts Chrome extension appear on the screen. Is there any way to prevent this?
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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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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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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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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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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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Setting the home directory of xscreensaver with systemd
I wrote a systemd user unit to start xscreensaver, since I want it to start up automatically. Here's what it looks like:
# ~/.config/systemd/user/xscreensaver.service
[Unit]
Description=XScreensaver
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Mplayer doesn't prevent screensaver in Ubuntu
I'm trying to watch a movie using mplayer, and despite putting stop-xscreensaver=yes in my /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file, and also starting mplayer using the -stop-xscreensaver, I still have to sit ...
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Strange xscreensaver behaviour
I've got a specific problem, but I think it could be generalized. There is a Debian squeeze system with fluxbox on an ASUS laptop. The xscreensaver is installed, but the daemon doesn't run. Well, I ...
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