From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 18:54:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A1616A422 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:54:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F89243D49 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:54:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so1016814wxc for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:54:06 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=OkaLEb8TV40uj2Og398tSF1vrwkWs24jpHWoV1Oyl5Wu+uPc9fxf+HXBbg8MGu+gj/Q/MH/wMToN7Aro+kenGEBmxrKYhK79/KXh1r2PJGZgEF+3Io7onuAd09Gl+0/H7+C+yK2PWenmYHRprtqZRVl9sclHbJRF6StBkusuqP0= Received: by 10.70.50.4 with SMTP id x4mr7956631wxx; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:54:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.42.6 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:54:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:54:06 -0800 From: Derrick Ryalls To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <43E8E35B.9070108@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <43E7AA14.8080104@FreeBSD.org> <43E8E35B.9070108@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xscreensaver-gnome doesn't start? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:54:08 -0000 > > Derrick Ryalls wrote: > > Derrick Ryalls wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > I have xscreensaver-gnome installed but it doesn't want to > > start. I have > > > tried adjusting the wait time down to 1 minute but that didn't > > help. Last > > > night I even tried deleting xscreensaver-hacks (not sure what tha= t > > was) and > > > doing a normal install of x11/xscreensaver-gnome but it still > > doesn't run. > > > My machine is a laptop running FreeBSD 6.0 and gnome 2.12. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any clues, I am sure I am missing something > > small > > > again. > > > > What errors do you get when you try starting xscreensaver from the > > command line? > > > > Joe > > > > - -- > > > > > > Starting it from the command line got it working, starting from menu > > says the daemon isn't running. So I guess I just need to add a script > > somewhere to autostart it when I log in? Would that be > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d or is there a better place for windowed apps? > > > > You don't need to do this. gnome-session should start this > automatically. If you're not using gnome-session, then you will need to > start xscreensaver from your .xinitrc or from whatever script you use to > start X. > > Joe > > I am using GDM to start the graphical login for gnome. Tonight I will chec= k to see if the new screensaver kicks in automatically (I have since rebooted).