It seems I have to start it manually. It's not part of systemd
systemctl enable xscreensaver Failed to enable unit: Unit file xscreensaver.service does not exist.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:05:39AM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
It seems I have to start it manually. It's not part of systemd
systemctl enable xscreensaver Failed to enable unit: Unit file xscreensaver.service does not exist.
Xscreensaver doesn't have a systemd unit, and it certainly shouldn't be run as root.
It has an XDG autostart configuration here: /etc/xdg/autostart/xscreensaver-autostart.desktop
... so if you're using a desktop environment that supports XDG, it should automatically start. If not, then you need to add something to you login startup script to launch it (as your userid) as part of the graphical login. (how you do that depends on what graphical environment you use)
In a modern GNOME environment, you don't use Xscreensaver, so there's no point in it launching. It doesn't support Wayland, (nor does the author seem interested in doing so). In GNOME, GDM does the screen locking, not the user session.
I'm running XFCE
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:05:39AM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
It seems I have to start it manually. It's not part of systemd
systemctl enable xscreensaver Failed to enable unit: Unit file xscreensaver.service does not exist.
Xscreensaver doesn't have a systemd unit, and it certainly shouldn't be run as root.
It has an XDG autostart configuration here: /etc/xdg/autostart/xscreensaver-autostart.desktop
... so if you're using a desktop environment that supports XDG, it should automatically start. If not, then you need to add something to you login startup script to launch it (as your userid) as part of the graphical login. (how you do that depends on what graphical environment you use)
In a modern GNOME environment, you don't use Xscreensaver, so there's no point in it launching. It doesn't support Wayland, (nor does the author seem interested in doing so). In GNOME, GDM does the screen locking, not the user session.
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On 6/29/21 1:23 PM, Terry Polzin wrote:
I'm running XFCE
In Xfce, open your main menu, go to Applications->Settings->Session and Startup and open the tab for Application Autostart. If Xscreensaver isn't already listed, add it and set it to be triggered by login. If it's listed but not checked, check it.
Also resolved by installing xfce4-screensaver
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 4:14 PM Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
On 6/29/21 1:23 PM, Terry Polzin wrote:
I'm running XFCE
In Xfce, open your main menu, go to Applications->Settings->Session and Startup and open the tab for Application Autostart. If Xscreensaver isn't already listed, add it and set it to be triggered by login. If it's listed but not checked, check it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
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