Harmless popup, I would like to get rid of it

jmak · 2017-10-19 15:58:06

Hello,

I have lxqt installed.

After each wakeup of my computer a harmless popup dialog comes us with the following message:

An error occurred starting screensaver. Action 'activate' failed. Ensure you have xscreensaver installed and running.

xscreensaver is not installed. I removed all traces of it.

Yet, I still get this error message. Even if harmless, it bothers me.

Does anyone have any idea how to get rid of it?

Thank you.

V1del · 2017-10-19 16:03:00

What are you starting? How are you starting X, check the autostart folders/utilities of whatever you are starting, verify that there's no .xinitrc or similarly sourced file still containing a reference.

jmak · 2017-10-19 16:34:22

V1del wrote:

What are you starting? How are you starting X, check the autostart folders/utilities of whatever you are starting, verify that there's no .xinitrc or similarly sourced file still containing a reference.

I start X by sddm.

I checked all those folders - no traces of xcreensaver!

mrunion · 2017-10-19 19:59:47

It wasn't in /etc/xdg/autostart? Something is telling it to start.

seth · 2017-10-19 21:24:31

https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/985 - not resolved, though.

jmak · 2017-10-19 21:46:31

mrunion wrote:

It wasn't in /etc/xdg/autostart? Something is telling it to start.

There was an xscreensaver file in the /etc/xdg/autostart directory; I removed it, but I still get the error message.

jmak · 2017-10-19 21:47:29

seth wrote:

https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/985 - not resolved, though.

Then, I guess I have to live with this error.

seth · 2017-10-20 06:26:54

See this and the following posts for possible workarounds: https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/985 … -200419556

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#1 2017-10-19 15:58:06

Harmless popup, I would like to get rid of it

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