[Solved] screen save does not work

jupiter · 2012-10-29 08:26:29

Hi,

I installed xfce on Centos 6, the screen save is configurated to take action in 3 minutes idel and password access, but the screen save has never happend, even hours idel, it was still no screen save. What could be wrong?

Thank you.

J

Sideburns · 2012-10-29 20:48:07

What screensaver are you trying to use, how did you configure it, and are you sure it's running? Open a terminal and run this:

ps aux | grep screensaver

You should get two lines in response: one listing your screensaver, and one listing grep itself. If you only get the second line, your screensaver isn't running.

jupiter · 2012-10-30 04:15:47

Sideburns wrote:

What screensaver are you trying to use, how did you configure it, and are you sure it's running? Open a terminal and run this:
ps aux | grep screensaver
You should get two lines in response: one listing your screensaver, and one listing grep itself. If you only get the second line, your screensaver isn't running.

Thanks Sideburns, yes the screensaver is running "gnome-screensaver"

j

Sideburns · 2012-10-30 04:29:23

Ah. Even when I used gnome, I never had much luck with that, but couldn't stop it from running. Eventually, I uninstalled it so that xscreensaver could run unhindered. Frankly, I see no reason to use gnome-screensaver at all, especially when you're not even using gnome. Get rid of it, install xscreensaver if it isn't already installed, then run xscreensaver-demo from a terminal to configure it and set it to launch when you log in.

jupiter · 2012-11-23 08:44:54

Thank you very much Sideburns, that works well. Just wondering how could gnome screwed it up.

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