[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: xscreensaver on GuixSD
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: xscreensaver on GuixSD |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:47:47 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> skribis:
> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Subject: Re: xscreensaver on GuixSD
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:45:14 +0200
>
>> Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> I'd like the xscreensaver daemon to start automatically. Has
>>> anyone
>>> set this up on their system? Do I need to define a custom service
>>> for
>>> this? Suggestions welcome!
>>
>> I would start it from ~/.xsession, but perhaps there are fancier
>> ways to
>> do that.
>
> Strangely, after creating a ~/.xsession file, I wasn't able to log in
> to my gnome session anymore (though I didn't investigate this further
> and just deleted ~/.xsession again).
Maybe you forgot “chmod +x ~/.xsession”?
> What did work was to create a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart.
> I've attached it here for future reference ;-)
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Screensaver
> Type=Application
> Exec=xscreensaver -nosplash
Interesting, I wonder what piece of software reads this file. Maybe
xfce-session and gnome-session?
Thanks for the tip,
Ludo’.