[solved] Something launches xscreensaver in OpenBox - and it's not me

lastchancetosee · 2010-11-05 17:51:35

Hi,
I have a weird problem with XScreensaver in OpenBox. I used to start it via autostart.sh but recently deleted that because I don't need a screensaver.

XScreensaver is still launched on startup and I have no idea who or what launches it. There is nothing related to it in either autostart.sh or .xinitrc or /etc/xdg/autostart (there is only gdu-notification-daemon and gsettings-data-convert in there). PSTree reports it as being a child directly of init, which isn't very helpful.

Does anyone know who could be the culprit or how I could go about finding out who launches xscreensaver?

Last edited by lastchancetosee (2010-11-09 18:01:24)

sonoran · 2010-11-06 05:22:35

Don't know who starts it, but you can kill it by adding

xset s off

to your openbox autostart.sh. I nuke dpms from there too with

xset -dpms

lastchancetosee · 2010-11-06 22:53:07

OK, that worked. Still, anyone how it get's stared? Does the DPMS-function of the X server notice xscreensaver is installed and uses it automatically?

quigybo · 2010-11-08 13:11:49

Are you running xdg-autostart? Also have a look in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart.

lastchancetosee · 2010-11-08 20:33:51

Hehe, turns out I'm an idiot. I looked in /etc/xdg/autostart, but not $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart. It's in there all right ...

Thanks. quigybo

Last edited by lastchancetosee (2010-11-08 20:34:10)

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#1 2010-11-05 17:51:35

[solved] Something launches xscreensaver in OpenBox - and it's not me

#2 2010-11-06 05:22:35

Re: [solved] Something launches xscreensaver in OpenBox - and it's not me

#3 2010-11-06 22:53:07

Re: [solved] Something launches xscreensaver in OpenBox - and it's not me

#4 2010-11-08 13:11:49

Re: [solved] Something launches xscreensaver in OpenBox - and it's not me

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Re: [solved] Something launches xscreensaver in OpenBox - and it's not me

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