getting xscreensaver to run.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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 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?
> 
> 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

> 
> Joe
> 

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