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idjut

Member

From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

xscreensaver-command -lock suddenly doesnt work

the above gives this message

xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0

it was ok yesterday ..

this didnt work:

$ xhost +localhost 
$ xscreensaver-command -exit

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Linux user #403491

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." - E. A. Poe from Eleonora

idjut

Member

From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: xscreensaver-command -lock suddenly doesnt work

No ideas?

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Linux user #403491

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." - E. A. Poe from Eleonora

DeusExLinux

Member

Registered: 2005-03-18

Posts: 98

Re: xscreensaver-command -lock suddenly doesnt work

did you start the daemon?

did you run xscreensaver?

jaboua

Member

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: xscreensaver-command -lock suddenly doesnt work

Doesn't seem like the deamon is running no...

Put "xscreensaver -no-splash &" in ~/.xinitrc (before you start the wm) or in some other file that your wm uses for autostarting of apps.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: xscreensaver-command -lock suddenly doesnt work

I start xscreensaver from my ~/.xinitrc like this:

xscreensaver-command -exit
xscreensaver &

idjut

Member

From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: xscreensaver-command -lock suddenly doesnt work

Put "xscreensaver -no-splash &" in ~/.xinitrc

^ Works

Thanks

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Linux user #403491

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." - E. A. Poe from Eleonora