Re: Screensaver while gdm is runing?

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

On Thu Jan 10 23:16:31 2002 Dries Kimpe wrote...
>
>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> 

OK, so now that we have identified the problem, how to we fix )work around)
it?

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