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Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be> skribis:

> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s)
> 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 =E2=80=9Cchmod +x ~/.xsession=E2=80=9D?

> What did work was to create a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart.
> I've attached it here for future reference ;-)
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=3DScreensaver
> Type=3DApplication
> Exec=3Dxscreensaver -nosplash

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

Thanks for the tip,
Ludo=E2=80=99.