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jonnybarnes

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XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

I installed xscreensaver, and then ran `systemctl --user enable xscreensaver`.

After every boot it fails to start, but then manually running `systemctl --user start xscreensaver` works.

I’m not sure how to debug whats going on. Any help?

Thanks.

jasonwryan

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

Fails to start is not an error message: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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jonnybarnes

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

systemctl --user status xscreensaver
zsh: correct 'xscreensaver' to '.xscreensaver' [nyae]? n
● xscreensaver.service - XScreenSaver
   Loaded: loaded (/home/jonny/.config/systemd/user/xscreensaver.service; enabled; vendor preset: en
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-07-03 09:30:32 BST; 19min ago
  Process: 1214 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xscreensaver -nosplash (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 1214 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 03 09:30:32 jonny-arch systemd[1208]: Started XScreenSaver.
Jul 03 09:30:32 jonny-arch systemd[1208]: xscreensaver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, st
Jul 03 09:30:32 jonny-arch systemd[1208]: xscreensaver.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 03 09:30:32 jonny-arch systemd[1208]: xscreensaver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Where might there be a more detailed log?

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

-nosplash

man xscreensaver

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jonnybarnes

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

I’ve removed the `-nosplash` flag and it still fails?

dockland

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

I’ve removed the `-nosplash` flag and it still fails?

Have you read the man page?

In that case you might fint the error in previous post.

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

xscreensaver actually also handles "-nosplash" (undocumented, but just tried)
I'd say the service thus lacks some other aspects - notably https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … XAUTHORITY
Otherwise please post the the actual sevice file and how you log in / start X11.

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jonnybarnes

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

I thought I’d got it fixed adding a log option, but on reboot it failed to load again, and seems to have added nothing to the log.

Here’s my service file:

# ~/.config/systemd/user/xscreensaver.service
[Unit]
Description=XScreenSaver

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xscreensaver -log /home/jonny/.xscreensaver.log

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

I’m using GNOME and just logging in with gdm and letting that start X11.

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

-log /home/jonny/.xscreensaver.log

Did you look at that?
And does "loginctl session-status" indicate that this is actually an X11 session (and xscreensaver doesn't run on xwayland)?

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jonnybarnes

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Re: XScreenSaver doesn’t start as my user account

-log /home/jonny/.xscreensaver.log

Did you look at that?
And does "loginctl session-status" indicate that this is actually an X11 session (and xscreensaver doesn't run on xwayland)?

That log file only has one entry from when I first edited the service file:

##########################################################################
xscreensaver: 13:59:36: logging to "/home/jonny/.xscreensaver.log" at Wed Jul  5 13:59:36 2017
##########################################################################

Every reboot since hasn’t even managed to add a new entry to sed log file before xscreensaver fails.

`loginctl session-status c2` includes the line "Service: gdm-password; type x11; class user"