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

[Israel]

On 04/27/2014 10:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.
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Hurray for JWM!!!!!  You made my morning!

I read a post a while back that there was some sort of bug with
xscreensaver.. you might check on launchpad to see if there is a bug for
it.  I never use screensavers, but if you need I'll look around when I
get a chance to see if I can find that web page.