On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote:
> I have xscreensaver and xlock installed on Slink. When I lock my
> screen, everything works fine for about 10 minutes and then my display
> goes blank. Is there any way I could keep the screensaver running
> longer without the blanking?
Although I have installed both xlock and xscreensaver, I use xscreensaver
all the time. This never blanks out. I put the following two lines in my
$HOME/.xsession
# Start an Xscreensaver process.
xscreensaver &
and copied the lines
!!! XScreensaver programs
xscreensaver.programs: \
qix -root -solid -delay 0 -segments 100 \n\
attraction -root -mode balls \n\
attraction -root -mode lines -points 3 -segments 200 \n\
attraction -root -mode splines -segments 300 \n\
(more such lines snipped off)
from /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver into my $HOME/.Xresources. Now
whenever I start an X session, an xscreensaver process is started. If the
mouse and keyboard are idle for ten minutes (timeout period), then
xscreensaver runs a graphic demo chosen randomly. This graphics hack
changes every ten minutes (cycle period). The timeout and cycle periods
can be configured, see the xscreensaver manpage.
To lock the display, I type "xscreensaver -lock" into an xterm, and to get
a screensaver without locking I do "xscreensaver -activate". The screen
never blanks out. The newer versions of the the program (mine is the one
packaged with Hamm) seem to be even better.
Cheers,
Raghavendra.
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