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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xscreensaver on GuixSD
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:47:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp7tmyks.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170630.103902.1323821482778973177.post@thomasdanckaert.be> (Thomas Danckaert's message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:39:02 +0200 (CEST)")

Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be> skribis:

> 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).

Maybe you forgot “chmod +x ~/.xsession”?

> What did work was to create a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart.
> I've attached it here for future reference ;-)
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Screensaver
> Type=Application
> Exec=xscreensaver -nosplash

Interesting, I wonder what piece of software reads this file.  Maybe
xfce-session and gnome-session?

Thanks for the tip,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-30 12:47 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
2017-06-30 12:47     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-07-01 15:39       ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-07-06  3:40 ` Chris Marusich

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