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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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I use a vnc (tightvncserver) connection: Devuan/aarch64 and Armbian(Debian)/armfh (hosts) thru Win10/TigerVNC (client). Since the upgrade of the underlying base to Debian Bookworm, xscreensaver and ...
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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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Upon running sudo apt remove xscreensaver I am prompted with the below messages. Is this normal? Should I proceed? Why would removing a screensaver involve so many things? I'm using LXDE desktop, ...
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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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Some outputs are really great, IMHO. I have read all xscreensaver manual, but I cannot get it to work so I run a xscreensaver animation and then get a PNG (or TIF, or whatever). How can I make a ...
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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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I have a laptop where I tried xscreensaver auto blanking screen after 1 minute of idle time and even though everything seems idle it doesn't blank the screen. So then I ran this command to blank the ...
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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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A few days before, I wanted to try out xscreensaver as it is knows for its cool screensavers. So I installed that by: sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra ...
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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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I just installed Solus. Its repositories are somewhat limited. I'm interested in adding a supplemental repository. But I don't know which one would be a good one. So let's say I want to find out ...
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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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I have xscreensaver running as a user service and see that often it fails to start. The status shows DISPLAY not set. I've changed the service definition to now retry and that seems to be working [...
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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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