Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:53:24 -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: <1262490804.16768.130.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <19263.63344.332069.375893@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <19263.55120.677489.798324@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1262480026.16768.47.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <19263.63344.332069.375893@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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--=-aaP7rd1NjANR7SzzvPSo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 curre= nt > > > 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 unde= r > > > gnome? > >=20 > > I'm not sure if this option is still valid. You might try simply addi= ng > > xscreensaver to the list of Startup Programs in the Startup Applicatio= ns > > 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? 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. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-aaP7rd1NjANR7SzzvPSo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAktAFLIACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fdggCfTnCr1hs5zUp+Cpl+EwhdC1EJ F+YAnRGsPoXEkJXC90ChP57LB3BJ/NNM =fdFT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-aaP7rd1NjANR7SzzvPSo--
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