Re: xscreensaver

From: David Sumbler (david_at_nospam.co.uk)
Date: 01/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:18:50 +0000

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, David Danovich wrote:

> I am using xscreensaver with RH9 and it works fine. Only one problem is that
> it does not want to start automatically
> when I reboot my computer. I have to go to preferences and start it. With
> such procedure it will work till next reboot.
> Is it possible to start it automatically when I login to my account?
> I am using xscreensaver 4.10.

If you are using KDE, you can put a script into your ~/.kde/Autostart/
folder to start xscreensaver. My script just says:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver

I imagine you can do something similar in Gnome and other GUIs.

David

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