Thanks for replying. My problems with xidle turned out to be mostly caused by a paused Mplayer, which disabled the screensaver. I also ended up doing xset dpms 0 0 0 to allow xlock control over it.
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]>wrote: > Robert Connolly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I am having problems with xidle(1)... > > > This command does nothing.. xlock doesn't run after 5 seconds, or > > minutes: > > xidle -program "/usr/X11R6/bin/xlock" -timeout 5 > > unless I put my mouse cursor in the NW corner. > > Works here > > $ uname -a > OpenBSD oko.bagdala2.net 5.1 GENERIC.MP#188 i386 > > $ more .xsession > #!/bin/sh > xidle -program "/usr/X11R6/bin/xlock" -timeout 300 & > xclock -geometry -0+0 & > feh --bg-scale /home/predrag/.unix.jpg & > exec cwm
