From: Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
To: ludo@gnu.org
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xscreensaver on GuixSD
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:39:02 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170630.103902.1323821482778973177.post@thomasdanckaert.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efu2n98l.fsf@gnu.org>
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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: xscreensaver on GuixSD
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:45:14 +0200
> Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be> skribis:
>
>> I'd like the xscreensaver daemon to start automatically. Has
>> anyone
>> set this up on their system? Do I need to define a custom service
>> for
>> this? Suggestions welcome!
>
> I would start it from ~/.xsession, but perhaps there are fancier
> ways to
> do that.
Strangely, after creating a ~/.xsession file, I wasn't able to log in
to my gnome session anymore (though I didn't investigate this further
and just deleted ~/.xsession again). What did work was to create a
.desktop file in ~/.config/autostart. I've attached it here for
future reference ;-)
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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Screensaver
Type=Application
Exec=xscreensaver -nosplash
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-30 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-28 16:42 xscreensaver on GuixSD Thomas Danckaert
2017-06-29 14:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-29 15:05 ` Daniel Pimentel
2017-06-30 8:39 ` Thomas Danckaert [this message]
2017-06-30 12:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-01 15:39 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-07-06 3:40 ` Chris Marusich
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