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 ;-)