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zzano

Member

Registered: 2005-05-18

Posts: 40

gnome screensaver

I just installed gnome-screensaver and it seemed to set up just fine. Hoiwever, it does not come on at the specified inactive period irrespective of which particular flavor I am using. Any suggestions?

Gullible Jones

Member

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: gnome screensaver

Do you have a user session of dbus running? If not, try changing "exec gnome-session" to "exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session" in your .xinitrc, or putting this (ripped right from the dbus-launch man page) in your .bashrc:

if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
    eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
    echo "D-BUS per-session daemon address is: $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"
fi

(The third line is optional.)

GDM launches a dbus session without any configuration though, so if you use GDM the problem must be something else.

Mefju

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2006-07-12

Posts: 104

Re: gnome screensaver

I've found that pam configuration file for gnome-screensaver is missing. It makes unable to unlock screen, when it's locked. For now I copied it from xscreensaver package.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: gnome screensaver

Please submit a bug report if it hasn't been done.