[TriLUG] xscreensaver and mandrake

Vestal, Roy L. rvestal at rti.org
Mon Sep 30 13:04:49 EDT 2002


Thanks. And you are welcome. I forgot, make sure .xsession is executable,
775 works fine for me.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Knowles [mailto:knowlesc at telocity.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:57 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] xscreensaver and mandrake


See, now was that so hard?

.xsession, that was really what I needed.  Knew the command-line, just not
where to put it.

As usual, you rock Roy!

CJK
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:48, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> " Xscreensaver --no-splash & " (without quotes) in your .xinitrc (init 
> 3) or .xsession (init 5)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Knowles [mailto:knowlesc at telocity.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:52 PM
> To: TriLUG mailing list
> Subject: [TriLUG] xscreensaver and mandrake
> 
> 
> So, in my continuing quest for fun, I ask for your help.
> 
> I am a KDE user, recently converted from that RH thingy to the 
> Mandrake thingy.
> 
> and I note that in KDE under Mandrake, there is a paucity of 
> screensavers.
> 
> I note that manually starting xscreensaver calms my need for 
> eye-candy, and seems to work without ill affect.
> 
> So, my question is this.  What is the proper way of causing 
> xscreensaver to start when I start x?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
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