Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:48:32 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting xscreensaver to run. Message-ID: <19263.63344.332069.375893@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <1262480026.16768.47.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <19263.55120.677489.798324@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1262480026.16768.47.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 15:31 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > > I rebuilt my desktop machine over the holidays (Mac Pro, running > > RELENG_8 with MBR based ZFS mirrored drives, etc...) using the current > > version of ports. > > > > I chose to install xscreensaver instead of the gnome screen saver > > (which is how I usually do things), but I can't seem to get it to > > start. This is how I used to run and I don't know what I've done > > differently. > > > > [...] > > > > What's the correct way to get xscreensaver to run automagically under > > gnome? > > I'm not sure if this option is still valid. You might try simply adding > xscreensaver to the list of Startup Programs in the Startup Applications > capplet. > > Joe Adding it to the startup programs seems to work fine. I started doing this back in the day because I couldn't get the gnome screen saver to put my monitor to sleep. Does that work correctly these days? Thanks for the help, g.
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