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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:08:18 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
To:        hartzell@alerce.com
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting xscreensaver to run.
Message-ID:  <4B423CA2.2090705@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19263.63344.332069.375893@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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On 1/2/10 8:48 PM, 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 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?

I have confirmed that this is working in GNOME 2.29.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome



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