Celejar wrote: > I'm running Debian Sid with XFCE. Xscreensaver used to work, but a > number of months ago, it broke badly: it now fails to fails to activate > via the "Preview" button or (more importantly) via the "Blank after" > setting.
Thank you for bringing this up. I just noticed yesterday that XScreensaver was not working with Xfce in my Bookworm VM, but I was too busy to look into it. I could start it by hand after logging in, but there was an autostart entry for it, so I expected it to already be running. Have you verified that the daemon is running? (Does "pgrep xscreensaver" produce anything?) Prompted by your email, I added an Xfce autostart command to run xscreensaver in verbose mode and with logging enabled. The log says xscreensaver: 09:09:49: running in process 4072 xscreensaver: 09:09:49: "cinnamon-screensaver" is already running on display :0.0 (window 0x1200001) By the time I could look at the log file, though, cinnamon-screensaver was no longer running. The xscreensaver man page does say something about uninstalling other screensavers. It's in the section "INSTALLING XSCREENSAVER ON GNOME OR UNITY", but maybe it applies to other DEs? It does seem odd that cinnamon-screensaver would get started in Xfce. Maybe this is some side-effect related to using systemd to start screensavers? Anyway, if you don't have any other screensavers installed in your VM, try enabling logging and see if it tells you anything interesting. mike
