Re: Screensaver while gdm is runing?
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Stan Brown wrote:
> What's the trick to geting xscreensaver to run, whicle gdm is displaying
> alogin prompt?
>
> I added to /etc/X11/gdm/Postsession, the following
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/screensaver -display $DISPLAY -no-splash -timeout 5 0nice 10
>
> But I don't see the process runing.
>
See man page for xscreensaver... It doesn't lock/run as root because of
safety reasons. It just drops privileges & refuses to do anything else.
gdm runs as root...
Command> xscreensaver -nosplash &
[1] 7019
---(root@thcomp)--(05:13:22)--(/home/lts)---
Command>
---(root@thcomp)--(05:13:23)--(/home/lts)---
Command> ps -ef | grep xsc
nobody 7019 6970 15 05:13 pts/5 00:00:00 xscreensaver -nosplash
---(root@thcomp)--(05:13:27)--(/home/lts)---
Command> xscreensaver-command -lock
xscreensaver-command: locking not enabled.
---(root@thcomp)--(05:13:34)--(/home/lts)---
Command>
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