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Date:      Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:53:24 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        hartzell@alerce.com
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting xscreensaver to run.
Message-ID:  <1262490804.16768.130.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <19263.63344.332069.375893@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
References:  <19263.55120.677489.798324@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1262480026.16768.47.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <19263.63344.332069.375893@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

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On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 17:48 -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke writes:
>  > On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 15:31 -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
>  > > I rebuilt my desktop machine over the holidays (Mac Pro, running
>  > > RELENG_8 with MBR based ZFS mirrored drives, etc...) using the curre=
nt
>  > > version of ports.
>  > >=20
>  > > I chose to install xscreensaver instead of the gnome screen saver
>  > > (which is how I usually do things), but I can't seem to get it to
>  > > start.  This is how I used to run and I don't know what I've done
>  > > differently.
>  > >
>  > > [...]
>  > >=20
>  > > What's the correct way to get xscreensaver to run automagically unde=
r
>  > > gnome?
>  >=20
>  > I'm not sure if this option is still valid.  You might try simply addi=
ng
>  > xscreensaver to the list of Startup Programs in the Startup Applicatio=
ns
>  > capplet.
>  >=20
>  > Joe
>=20
> Adding it to the startup programs seems to work fine.
>=20
> I started doing this back in the day because I couldn't get the gnome
> screen saver to put my monitor to sleep.  Does that work correctly
> these days?

Gnome-screensaver uses g-p-m to put the display to sleep.  This
currently uses DPMS which _should_ work.  However, I haven't yet seen it
work.  Someone else may be able to give some more insight.

Joe

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