which daemon is running, gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver?

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:41 AM, shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>

>
> While in Ubuntu if there is no activity either by mouse or by the
> keyboard, the monitor goes into power-safe mode. in xubuntu it
> doesn't.
>
> Now I do not know why it doesn't do this. So I wanna find the following :-
>
> a. Which daemon of the two are running atm, is there a way to find out.
>        From what I know its
>       1. gnome-power-preferences
>       2. xscreensaver-demo
>

If xscreensaver is installed, Xubuntu will use xscreensaver. Otherise,
Xubuntu will use gnome-screensaver. Xubuntu ships gnome-screensaver by
default.

You can tell which is running by looking for the xscreenaver and
gnome-screensaver processes.


>
> b.  Is there any other tool or any other configuration I need to be
> aware of while in xubuntu?


You may be suffering from a bug introduced in Hardy. At the gdm login
screen, click "sessions" and select "Xfce4" before logging in.


> Looking forward to comments, suggestions on the same.


> --
>          Regards,
>          Shirish Agarwal

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Cheers,

-- 
Cody A.W. Somerville
Software Systems Release Engineer
Custom Engineering Solutions Group
Canonical OEM Services
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Email: cody.somerville at canonical.com
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