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Date:      Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:27:25 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        hartzell@alerce.com
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting xscreensaver to run.
Message-ID:  <1262492845.16768.131.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 22:53 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 17:48 -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
> > 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 cur=
rent
> >  > > version of ports.
> >  > >=20
> >  > > 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.
> >  > >
> >  > > [...]
> >  > >=20
> >  > > What's the correct way to get xscreensaver to run automagically un=
der
> >  > > gnome?
> >  >=20
> >  > I'm not sure if this option is still valid.  You might try simply ad=
ding
> >  > xscreensaver to the list of Startup Programs in the Startup Applicat=
ions
> >  > capplet.
> >  >=20
> >  > Joe
> >=20
> > Adding it to the startup programs seems to work fine.
> >=20
> > 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?
>=20
> Gnome-screensaver uses g-p-m to put the display to sleep.  This
> currently uses DPMS which _should_ work.  However, I haven't yet seen it
> work.  Someone else may be able to give some more insight.

Actually, I was going through the g-p-m code, and I think things are
broken given that gnome-screensaver and g-p-m are out of sync.  This
should get fixed in GNOME 2.30 now that we have DeviceKit-power, and can
then update g-p-m.

Joe

>=20
> Joe
>=20

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