[SOLVED] How should you configure xscreensaver to run as part of xorg

ipyakuza · 2020-02-06 15:29:24

I've been trying to configure xscreensaver to run as part of my xorg session (whenever I kickoff via startx). There was one thread I read on here that noted I should setup xscreensaver as a user systemd service. I've tried this but seems like a race condition as when I login if I don't start xorg immediately the service fails to launch (system unit file below) because there is no xorg session to attach to. Not sure if there is a dependency I can declare in the service file to wait for xorg or not.

The other method I believe is just adding it to .xinitrc before kicking off exec i3.

Reading the Arch wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XS … figuration) I didn't see any specific method called out, it noted how to manually launch it and some tweaks for various players/Kodi/etc. but not a recommendation on how it should be configured to run as part of my user xorg session.

Any advice appreciated.

[Unit]
Description=XScreensaver

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xscreensaver -no-splash

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Last edited by ipyakuza (2020-02-06 18:08:04)

seth · 2020-02-06 15:49:37

If you have and use an xinitrc, that's the most straight forward and local approach.
Otherwise you'd have to make your X11 session a systemd user-service/target and depend the screensaver on that.

ipyakuza · 2020-02-06 18:06:42

Thanks. I've added to my .xinitrc and it seems to be working:

# For xscreensaver to run as part of the x session
/usr/bin/xscreensaver -nosplash &

# Launch i3 window manager
exec i3

seth · 2020-02-06 20:27:33

In case that's your entire xinitrc, please see the second note in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc

ipyakuza · 2020-02-06 21:16:58

I wasn't aware of this (of course I'm not aware of a lot of thing in linux yet but learning quickly). Thanks again for the tip and your help.

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[SOLVED] How should you configure xscreensaver to run as part of xorg

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