Screevaver

[fred smith]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:50:07AM +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Every time that I restart the machine, there is a screensaver running in
> >background consuming CPU while it should not. After I kill the process
> >every thing is fine. The screensaver works fine (ie. lock the screen when
> >it has to do it, etc..).
> >I do not see anything in the service configuration showing a start of
> >screensaver. It is started from "Startup Application"=20
> >(xscreensaver-autostart is not checked).
> The problem comes probably from the fact that there are several
> gnome-screensaver deamons running simultaneously !

the xscreensaver-demo help screens can take you to a page that describes
in detail how to enable xscreensaver AND how to disable gnome-screensaver,
some of the steps not being intuitively obvious. I just found it, myself,
this week.


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