Set "Turn screen off when inactive for" to "Never."you might need to add a setting to start it when gnome is launched or a line in ~/. Open "System Settings / Brightness & Lock" This will completely cut power to the monitor when the screensaver activates.
#CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER 4 HOW TO#
That wheel, guys! (If you have figured out how to replace Unity's locking "feature" with xscreensaver, let me know.) To turn the monitor off, open xscreensaver-settings, switch to the Advanced tab, and under Display Power Management (on right hand side) check the box for Quick Power-off in Blank Only Mode.
Select ' Startup Applications ' from the menu (or manually launch ' gnome-session-properties ') and add ' xscreensaver '. It's configured through the /.xscreensaver file and setup is done (IIRC: it's been 15 years since I used it) through the.
It's gonna work the way it works, and its developer (JWZ) is quite () opinionated about how it should work. sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver or possibly sudo dpkg -P gnome-screensaver 2: Launch xscreensaver at login. XScreenSaver is a very established program: it was stable roughly 20 years ago. Apparently it has its own built-in screen locker which is not gnome-screensaver, and cannot be removed, and yet still manages to be bug-addled and insecure. To replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver: 1: Fully uninstall the gnome-screensaver package. It might be in ' /usr/lib//libexec/ ', or it might be somewhere else. Sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command \ Copy the file /usr/share/applications/sktop into the directory /.config/autostart/ 3: Make KDE's 'Lock' icon use XScreenSaver. Select "Startup Applications" from the menu (or manually launch "gnome-session-properties") and add "xscreensaver".ģ: Make GNOME's "Lock Screen" use xscreensaver. Note that xscreensaver has a client-server model: the xscreensaver program is a daemon that runs in the background it is controlled by the foreground xscreensaver-demo(1) and xscreensaver-command(1) programs. To replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver:ġ: Fully uninstall the gnome-screensaver package. Copy the file /usr/share/applications/sktop into the directory /.config/autostart/ 4: Make KDEs 'Lock' icon use XScreenSaver. As a result, the "gnome-screensaver" program is insecure, bug-ridden, and missing many features of xscreensaver. In 2005, however, they decided to re-invent the wheel and ship their own replacement for the xscreensaver daemonĬalled "gnome-screensaver", rather than improving xscreensaver and contributing their changes back.
For the better part of a decade, GNOME shipped xscreensaver as-is, and everything just worked out of the box.
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