Questions tagged [xscreensaver]
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How do I figure out what is inhibiting my screensaver and preventing lock screen/sleep?
At some point last month, I realized my screensaver (xscreensaver in this case) was no longer blanking the screen (and therefore also not locking it, and going into dpms idle/standby) at all. I had ...
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Use mplayer as an xscreensaver?
Wanting to run a video as my screensaver, I ran into problems configuring it appropriately. I am summarizing the solution here in Q&A format.
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Two programs want a d-bus service - how can I run them both?
I had the following setup: For my screensaver, I used xscreensaver (because it's beautiful) To lock my screen, I used light-locker (because it's more secure then xscreensaver) Recenctly, ...
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Getting rid of "The following packages will be DOWNGRADED"
I'll start by stating, I'm pretty sure this is a unique mess of my own design, but I hope someone encountered this and might be able to help. The Setup My laptop runs Pop!_OS 22.04 (Based on Ubuntu ...
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Xscreensaver Debian 11 not functioning properly on LXQt
Hi I am running Debian 11 Bullseye, LXQt version, and I'm having trouble with the screensaver called XScreensaver version 5.45. Basically what I would like to do is for the screen to completely shut ...
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How do I switch between users, without logging out?
I am using Lubuntu, my desktop environment is lxQt and screensaver is xScreensaver. I'm trying to figure out a way to switch between users, (e.g. when pressing meta + L). Even though, it is possible ...
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Is it possible to port an OSX Screensaver into Linux?
Is it possible to port an OSX Screensaver into Linux? Specifically this one called "ScreenMazer" which is freely available from github. I know that xscreensaver has a maze of their own, but the one ...
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Changing the font in XScreensaver's dialogs?
I decided to build XScreensaver from source recently after realizing my distribution had a slightly outdated build in the repo. Everything is great except for the dialog boxes, which have a humungous, ...
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