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Hi everyone!
Yesterday I installed Arch for the first time and I am having some problems concerning screensavers. Most of the stuff I have come across is pretty clear in how it works, but screensavers seems to be some kind of magic to me.
Current build:
Arch linux on UEFI
Desktop environment: Xfce4
Display manager: Lightdm
mdadm raid 1 with 2 drives
So I have tried:
Attempt 1
- Install light-locker
- Reboot
- light-locker-command -a -> Error: screensaver can't be activated
Attempt 2
- Install light-locker and xscreensaver
- Reboot
- light-locker-command -a -> Error: screensaver can't be activated
What I can see is that my screen goes blank for a second before it goes on again and the error popped up in the terminal.
My idea is that I probably forgat something very silly (yesterday I didn't understand why lightdm wouldn't work; seems I forgat to install Xorg).
I have been searching for configs or something else as my idea is that light-locker wants to activate a screensaver, but there isn't a screensaver configured yet.
Could someone explain what is wrong?
Thanks!
Regards,
Stamper
P.S. Love Arch so far
EDIT: light-locker-command -l works fine!
Last edited by Stamper (2015-08-08 16:01:49)
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Just use xscreensaver from [extra]. Run it with `xscreensaver-demo` and which point will ask to be started as a daemon. Should auto start after that as I recall.
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xscreensaver works fine on its own as both a screensaver and a screenlocker indeed. However, shouldn't light-locker either have its own screensaver or use another screensaver? I have been googling for this but couldn't find any info about it.
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