Owen Berry wrote:
Great! Would you mind posting what you did to gdm.conf? I'm interested.
Thanks,
Owen
I actually already sent a reply to this, but never saw it come across
the list... Here goes another try :)
Sure - I just followed the instructions from the XScreenSaver manual at:
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html
The relevant section says:
Using xscreensaver with
/_gdm (1)_/ is easy, because gdm has a configuration tool. Just fire
up /_gdmconfig (1)_/ and on the /Background/ page, type
*"xscreensaver -nosplash"* into the /Background Program/ field. That
will cause gdm to run xscreensaver while nobody is logged in, and
kill it as soon as someone does log in. (The user will then be
responsible for starting xscreensaver on their own, if they want.)
Another way to accomplish the same thing is to edit the file
//etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
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to include:
BackgroundProgram=xscreensaver -nosplash
RunBackgroundProgramAlways=true
In this situation, the /xscreensaver/ process will probably be
running as user /gdm/ instead of /root/. You can configure the
settings for this nobody-logged-in state (timeouts, DPMS, etc.) by
editing the /~gdm/.xscreensaver/ file.
To get gdm to run the BackgroundProgram, you may need to switch it
from the "Graphical Greeter" to the "Standard Greeter".
I am using the graphical greeter currently, so I don't actually see any
screen savers currently (as the last sentence suggests), but it did seem
to solve my monitor power issues. I think I might try and see how
xscreensaver does with the standard greeter, mostly because xscreensaver
is really cool :)
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