[ubuntu-studio-users] Screensaver never working on boot.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:48 +0100, Alex Armani wrote:
> Hi all, a problem I've long had with studio, is that when I boot my
> machine up, and got o the screen saver settings,it always tells me
> that the screensaver is not running and gives me the option to start
> it. How do I fix this so it auto starts?

Are you using Xfce?

I'm not using the screensaver, but xfce4-power-manager and it's started
under Menu > Settings > Settings Manager > System: Session and Startup >
Application Autostart. It should be possible to launch the screensaver
that way too.

Other WMs/DEs have other options similar to Xfce's.

For JWM you e.g. could add
<StartupCommand>xfce4-power-manager</StartupCommand>
to ~/.jwmrc, resp. instead of xfce4-power-manager the used screensaver.