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mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

hope this is the place to post this!

I have tried putting xscreensaver in my daemon list in rc.conf.
I have put xscreensaver -no-splash & in my ~/.xinitrc  before wm starts.
but, I have to manually start the daemon. So, obviously I'm doing something wrong. Could someone point out how to have the daemon start automatically?
I'm currently using kde 3.5.5 - all packages are current.
Also, I do not have screensavers enabled in KDE.

Thanks,
McRae

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

> Also, I do not have screensavers enabled in KDE.
Eh, why? I've never touched anything xscreensaver, it just works (in KDE and Xfce).

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mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

I want to use xscreensaver, not kde's screensaver.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

You could put a file called xscreensaver.desktop in ~/.kde/Autostart with following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=xscreensaver -no-splash &
Name=XScreenSaver
Type=Application
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false

Remember to chmod +x it.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

I always thought KDE integrated XScreenSaver??

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lucke

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

KDE uses kscreensaver, which provides different "themes" and generally is a separate thing.

mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

thank you.
I did as you said but upon restart I receive this message:
no Type= specified.

I rechecked my file and this is what I have:

Exec=xscreensaver -no-splash &
Name=XScreenSaver
Type=Application
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false

To chmod it I simply run as root #chmod +x /home/user/.kde/Autostart/xscreensaver.desktop right?

Thanks for your patience,
McRae

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

Yes, that's how you chmod it.

It should work. I even checked whether it works here and it indeed does ;-)

Play with it a bit. Instead of restarting KDE, just open .kde/Autostart in konqueror and click on the xscreensaver file. Then check whether xscreensaver is running or not (e.g. with ps).

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

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Posts: 2,046

Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

Okay, thanks. Now that I think of it I'm even missing a few config options from the xscreensaver dialog...

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mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

strange.

Here is the file:
Exec=xscreensaver -no-splash &
Name=XScreenSaver
Type=Application
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false

yet kde insist that this file has no Type=...entry?

Don't want to make you sorry you've helped me but any thoughts on this error?

thanks again,
McRae

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

Run 'desktop-file-validate' on it for more hints.

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mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

[mcrae@blackbox ~]$ desktop-file-validate /home/                                                   mcrae/.kde/Autostart/xscreensaver.desktop
/home/mcrae/.kde/Autostart/xscreensaver.desktop:                                                    error: file doesn't contain a "Desktop Entry" s                                                   ection

This is the output? I'm sure the answer is right here but I'm not sure what to  do with the output... :oops:

lucke

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From: Poland

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

Ah. Have you omitted "[Desktop Entry]" on top?

mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

Thanks lucke,
If I can't get it to go from here I'll just use the kscreensaver. It's strange though. I had xscreensaver before I reinstalled Arch day before yesterday (shrug) who knows....

thanks again for your time,
McRae

mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

ummmm wait.
where would desktop entry need to be?

lucke

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

First line of desktop file.

mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

YES.

That was it

Thanks so much lucke!

McRae

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: xscreensaver daemon not starting on startup w/KDE

Enjoy :-)