From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 4 19:08:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7757D1065695 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EB58FC20 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:08:21 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o04J8ISS020792; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:08:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-64-102-221-173.cisco.com (dhcp-64-102-221-173.cisco.com [64.102.221.173]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o04J8IEU021792; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:08:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B423CA2.2090705@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:08:18 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hartzell@alerce.com References: <19263.55120.677489.798324@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1262480026.16768.47.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <19263.63344.332069.375893@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <19263.63344.332069.375893@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting xscreensaver to run. X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:08:22 -0000 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