Debian :: XScreensaver Installed - How To Configure
Aug 13, 2009Debian/Testing/XFCE4. I have xscreensaver installed but can find no way to set it up.
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Debian Configuration :: Xscreensaver Cannot Control The Screen
Dec 29, 2010For some reason I cannot figure out, xscreensaver does not have permission to control my screen. It's present in memory, so the settings app thinking it is not present and asking if I want to start it is odd. Could the the necessity of using VESA BIOS controls to get around bugs in the VIA/S3/Unichrome chipset be the source of the problem? Are there other Linux screensavers that might work differently and might still be able to blank my screen?
View 4 Replies View RelatedDebian Multimedia :: Xscreensaver Randomly Crashes X
Apr 16, 2016My supposedly stable system was crashing. The problem was one or more specific screensavers--xscreensaver, the display manager (lightDM), and X itself are innocent as far as I can tell.
I'm on a Thinkpad T400 with Debian Jessie (8.4)/MATE/lightDM. I have libreboot and not proprietary BIOS. I like variety, so in addition to installing xscreensaver itself (the unofficial patched jessie version without the "out of date" nag, which I got from https://angband.pl/debian/pool/main/x/xscreensaver/), I also installed some extras from the official repository (xscreensaver-gl-extra, xscreensaver-data-extra, xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod). I enabled all the installed screensavers and asked xscreensaver to randomly cycle through them.
To my dismay, after variable lengths of time (usually within 20-60 minutes), when a random screensaver has been on for a little while (I'm guessing as it's about to go to the next random one), X crashes to a black screen. The only way to make the black screen go away is to kill X (which I mapped to Control + Alt + Backspace) then log back in. There are no useful logs anywhere except some cryptic IO error 11 entry in ~/.xsessionerros.
Now for the troubleshooting:
1) First I tried installing a more up-to-date version of xscreensaver (5.34-2), which I grabbed from the sid repository. This didn't work--same problem as described above. Therefore, I went back to the patched version for jessie (5.30-1 from angband.pl).
2) To exclude that the lightDM middleman was the problem, I disabled it and was logging in with startx. Problem did not go away. (I then rigged systemd to log me in automatically and for startx to run automatically once I'm logged in--who needs middlemen?)
3) To exclude screensavers butting heads, I uninstalled mate-screensaver and disabled anything from X that could be interfering (by running these commands in a startup script: xset -dpms; xset s 0 0; xset s noblank; xset s off). Problem did not go away. I kept this startup script nevertheless.
4) Finally, to exclude individual xscreensaver module(s) being the problem, I unchecked them all. Then I wrote down the names of my 20 favorite modules (which include some from gl-extra, some from data-extra, and bsod) and tested them in small batches, running xscreensaver with only 5 favorites checked at a time. After testing four batches of 5 and witnessing all 20 favorites both display and load without any X crashes, I went ahead and selected all 20 favorites. I left the laptop on overnight and in the morning (about 12 hours later) it's still going strong.
One or more particular xscreensaver modules are crashing X, probably at the time they are being loaded to be the next one to show. I think I already spent enough time on this, so don't really care to identify +/- troubleshoot the offending modules.
Debian Multimedia :: Disabled XScreensaver Still Locks Screen
Apr 14, 2015I'm using SolydX, based on Debian Jessie. XScreensaver is installed and disabled, but it still locks my netbook screen after some minutes and suspend mode. Waking the netbook up brings XScreensaver login window. I'd like lightdm login window to appear instead.
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Jul 1, 2011I have set up minimal debian installation with pekwm, tint2, xscreensaver and friends. When I press Fn+F4 on my thinkpad or run pm-suspend from root terminal, it suspends just fine (yay), but when I resume, I get instantly logged in into my account. What I'd like to have, is that xscreensaver locks my session after suspend, so that I have to type in my password in order to continiue working.
PS. In /etc/default/acpi-support I have LOCK_SCREEN=true
Debian Multimedia :: Change Ugly Xscreensaver Unlock Dialog
Feb 18, 2010I was wondering if there was a way to change the ugly xscreensaver unlock dialog.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDebian Multimedia :: Xscreensaver Blanks Screen While Watching Movies?
Jun 5, 2011I'm using Debian Squeeze with Fluxbox and I'm having a problem with xscreensaver. I've set to blank screen after 10 minutos of inactivity, but the problem is that when I'm watching a movie, the screen is blanked after 10 minutes too. So I have to manually kill xscreensaver before starting to see a movie, or I have to move my mouse / press keyboard every 10 minutes to activate the screen again.
I've done some search before posting and I only found something about a SMPlayer's option named "Disable screensaver", but it is already on and it has no effect preventing xscreensaver to work. Here is a screen shoot of my SMPlayer configuration window:
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Apparently, xscreensaver isn't being able to recognize that another program is running. Could it be related to dbus?
PS: I had a dbus problem when I first upgraded to squeeze, my multimedia keys stoped working in banshee (whenever I clicked to play/pause/next etc, another banshee process was started), but I solved it by adding this line to my ~/.xinitrc: eval "$(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)"
General :: How To Configure Installed Ruby And Gems
May 3, 2010My current gem env returns:
RubyGems Environment:
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6
- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]
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Ubuntu :: Possible After OS Is Installed To Configure Space As One Logical Volume?
Jun 2, 2010HPDL385 with dual raid controllers (8 disks each). During the install of the ISO, it sees the raid controllers individually. I tried "One Generic Drive" but it still only partitions one of the raid controllers.Is it possible after the OS is installed to configure the space as one logical volume?
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Feb 4, 2010how to configure my customized Slim DM to overwrite the installed /etc/rc.d/rc.4 script with the one I put in my slim build from source.However, it just installs it as rc.4.new and not rc.4 why?would it be easier to instead configure the rc.4 that initially gets installed?if so, what slack pkg has the /etc/rc.d/* folder??I'm doing this with Absolute 13.0.8 install cd as its installed size is too big for my lappy hdd and it comes with both gdm and xdm and I want slim.
So, I removed many many pkgs from install iso, got it down to 370MB and only problem is after install my rc.4 is in /etc/rc.d but its named rc.4.new and there is also the original rc.4 thats my only issue
General :: Correct Process For Updating An Application Installed Via The './configure?
May 12, 2010what is the correct process for updating an application installed via the './configure, make, make install' sequence?For example, I have an app checked out via a git repository, on which I run the 'make install' on to install. Then a few days later I run a git pull to update to the latest release, do I just run the same sequence again or should I 'make uninstall' first?
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Feb 6, 2010How to set xscreensaver as default
I just enjoy xscreensaver, but I like to have it as default, when f12 start. I am not very deep in details of Fedora, but still, can anybody guide me to set this as default ?
General :: Run Xscreensaver Whenever The Lid Is Closed
Apr 24, 2011How can I run xscreensaver whenever the lid is closed? I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with the awesome window manager.
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: XScreenSaver 5.08 - How To Either Disable Or Uninstall
Jul 29, 2010 I added XScreenSaver 5.08 to her applications list. We've had issues with XScreenSaver and want to either disable or uninstall the application. We cannot figure out how to disable XScreensaver and revert to the original screensaver app that came with the system. When I use Snaptics Package Manager to either 'completely' uninstall', or just 'uninstall' the message says that I will uninstall the 'desktop'.
Does this mean I will uninstall only the desktop version of XScreenSaver applilcation? Or, does this mean I will uninstall the system desktop (in this case Xfce)? I'm a little hesitant to punch the button in case I blow off Xfce desktop! Our goal is to either disable or uninstall XScreenSaver 5.08. Then be able to use the screensaver that came with the system.
Red Hat / Fedora :: Setting The Xscreensaver As Default?
Feb 6, 2010how to set xscreensaver as default I just enjoy xscreensaver, but I like to have it as default, when f12 start.
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Mar 15, 2010While I will not dispute this is not for everyone, I was wondering is there a trick to get webcollage working in Slack 13?
It works from the command prompt with something like this: /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/webcollage -vvv -size '800x600' -imagemap crazy
Just wondering why the Xscreensaver portion seems to be defunct.
Ubuntu Installation :: Configure: Error: You Must Have GLib 2.4.0 Or Newer Development Headers Installed To Build
Oct 9, 2010I am trying to build Pidgin on my Lucid install and on running configure, I get the following:
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configure: error: You must have GLib 2.4.0 or newer development headers installed to build.
If you have these installed already you may need to install pkg-config so I can find them. I tried installing pkg-config, but it's already in its newest version. I then tried going to the following website
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and downloaded and extracted glib on my computer. That changed nothing. I was hoping someone could tell me what's going on here. I just tried the this:
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sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0
and got
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libgtk2.0-0 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Fedora :: Running XScreenSaver Daemon On Startup
Jan 23, 2010I'm having some problems getting my screensaver to work automatically.If I start the screensaver config program then it gives me this message: "The XScreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on display ":0.0". Launch it now?" If I click yes then my screensaver works exactly as expected.How can I get the XScreenSaver daemon to start automatically?
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Jun 8, 2011Can someone please tell me why I have 2 screensaver programs? I have screen saver - KDE Control Module and XScreenSaver. What is the difference between them?
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: How To Change The Xscreensaver Password Window
Jan 23, 2010I recently installed xscreensaver in order to change some settings on some of the screensavers I have. All is well until I lock the screen. I do not like the look of the password entry window. the one that came with the GTK2 theme I use looked great and I was wondering if there was a way to tell xscreensaver to use that one instead of the one that it uses by default. Also, whenever I restart my computer I have to open up xscreensaver and tell it to kill the gnome-screensaver daemon and then start the xscreensaver one. Is there a way to automate this process?
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Replace Gnome-screensaver With Xscreensaver?
May 12, 2010Although xscreensaver is much better and liked by many users, the Ubuntu devs replaced it with gnome-screensaver simply cause -
1) It's integrates better with the gnome-desktop.
2) It follows release cycles of Gnome.
Since the devs and admins won't listen, we users have to clean their **** up and this is the howto - In Ubuntu, the gnome-screensaver is running; but xscreensaver is better, so we need to replace it. The gnome-screensaver runs as a daemon...removing this gnome-screensaver package will remove this executable also -
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Ubuntu :: XScreensaver Crash - Screen Will Blank
Jan 17, 2011I just installed Xubuntu 10.10 after killing my previous one w/ manual changes. Anyway, a moment after starting XScreensaver, the screen will blank. When i move my mouse, the cursor is visible, nothing else. the only thing i've been able to do is unlock, move cursor to the logout button, and logout.
View 3 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Security :: How Secure Is Plain Old XScreenSaver W/PAM
Apr 13, 2011I recently installed Xubuntu on a 5+ year-old Acer Aspire laptop. In spite of how the root, swap and home are volumes in an LVM2 group on top of a fully-encrypted harddisk, it's quite swift this computer isn't for me, however; it's for my old man. It's been my pet project for the past few weeks, as an exercise in making Linux both highly secure and user-friendly, so that even a technophobe like him could use it without fear of identity theft if it ever gets lost or stolen. I recently shipped it off to him...
The weakest part of security, however, I fear may be the screensaver, which is why I ask. I've searched and searched and cannot manage to find any information on security hardening practices (apart from banal advice such as "always choose a secure password" and "never log in to an X-session as root"). What I want to know is, just how safe is a locked screen? Also...is it technically possible with the right tools to get a core dump of a running computer and thus extract the block device encryption key from memory? I know that your run-of-the-mill thief will just try hitting the power button and throwing in a livedisk, but hey, you never know. Edit: found. [URL] I guess I need to tell him how to set the BIOS password to thwart that sort of thing next time I talk to him on the phone...
Applications :: Xscreensaver Render Error Detected?
Jul 9, 2010Sometimes my screen-saver crashes, showing a blank screen with "render error detected ..." message.This message is displayed only short time <1s, then login screen appears.Due to short time, I'm not able to read the complete error message on screen. Is there a way to delay the displaying of such errors so I can read it properly?In the /var/log/messages I have found the following: Code: Jul 9 09:22:33 dc7100 kernel: render error detected, EIR:
0x00000010
Jul 9 09:22:33 dc7100 kernel: page table error
Jul 9 09:22:33 dc7100 kernel: PGTBL_ER: 0x00000010
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Software :: How To Stop Xscreensaver From Automatically Starting
Jan 9, 2010I recently upgraded to zenwalk 6.2 and xscreensaver now starts automatically so i have to input my password whenever i shut and reopen my laptop lid. how can i stop it from auto-starting.
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Sep 5, 2010Im running ubuntu 10.04 lts. Ive been struggling with automating a screensaver to come on and off at shceduled times. all is working fine except I cannot seem to get xscreensaver to start from cron. when i run it manually i need to use:
xscreensaver & and then hit enter. I'm not sure whats happening as i only get the line that it ran in my logs but no error. i am using xset to turn the display power on and off, then xscreensaver-command -activate and deactivate, after loading the xscreensaver daemon. everything automated works fine except starting xscreensaver daemon. if i run the same commands manually it works fine. if i leave the xscreensaver daemon running and shutoff display with xset it will come on again unless i kill xscreensaver. fyi what im trying to do: my linux file/web/music server is on a tablet netbook and i flipped the screen around and am trying to also use it as a digital picture frame. which works fine, i just dnt want to run it needlessly 24/7
Software :: Xscreensaver - Different Screen-saver For Each Monitor ?
Sep 2, 2010So I'm using xscreensaver on Fedora 13 and was wondering if I could use a different screen-saver on each of my monitors (I have two). I don't know how or if I can do so, but I'm confident that someone here will.
View 2 Replies View RelatedProgramming :: BASH - Can't Check If XScreenSaver Is Running
Feb 26, 2011I'm having trouble trying to make a script. What I want to do is check if xScreenSaver is running in my user account. If not, run it. If it's running, kill it.
So this is the script I've made:
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The problem is that I've echoed the output of $(pgrep -u $(whoami) xscreensaver) and it always seems to add 4 numbers to the pid, even if the pid doesn't exist. What do I mean by "doesn't exist"? That no xscreensaver is running in my user, and if I run pgrep -u $(whoami) xscreensaver in bash, I get not output, but if I run the command though the script, I get (for instance) 4050. If I run it again, I get 4054, and again 4058... etc. What the hell is going on with that?
General :: Use The Xscreensaver Gltext To Monitor System Information?
May 26, 2010I am trying to get the X screensaver gltext to monitor my system temp and maybe some other stats. Writing a script that puts together the stats periodically is no problem, but the main thing I'm running into is that gltext doesn't refresh - whatever text I feed it stays there.So, for example, I run this command:$ /usr/lib/xscreensaver/gltext -text "`cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature`"and get a gltext window showing:temperature:60 CI can manipulate it and format it as necessary, but as my CPU heats up and cools down, it doesn't update, even if I include time variables that do.I have a script that feeds gltext the time as the first line and the temp as the second line - and although the time updates continuously as the time changes, the temperature value remains the same as whenever the screensaver started.
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Aug 21, 2010have you ever tried to type into xterm ? (output of 5-11.1): Code: xscreensaver-command -lock xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0 If it is working for you, which version of xscreensaver do you have?
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