Re: xscreensaver requires manual activation
on Tue, 01 Jan 2002 08:01:08PM -0500, dman insinuated:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 05:24:12PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> | (potato, 2.4.9)
> | running xscreensaver but it hasn't for some time started up by itself
> | when i start X. it says it is:
> |
> | orange:~> xscreensaver
> | xscreensaver: already running on display :0.0 (window 0x800001)
> | from process 432 (nori@orange).
>
> I would track this down, this is likely the source of the problem.
> My guess is that there is a lock file sitting somewhere with "432"
> in it. What is process 432? I get this from everybuddy frequently
> the time because it doesn't remove the lock file when I logout from
> gnome and then thinks it is already running when it isn't.
not sure what you're talking about here ... what exactly is a
lockfile, and how would i go about tracking it down and killing it?
here's everything i know about process 432:
orange:~> ps aux | grep xscr
nori 432 0.0 0.6 2964 840 ? S 2001 0:04
/usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver
as for anything i know about lockfiles,
orange:~> ls -la /var/lock/
total 2
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jan 1 07:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Aug 22 11:03 ../
... nothing having to do with a lockfile on xscreensaver. would it be
there? if not, where?
tia again,
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