Re: GNOME settings on start up
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:01:40PM +0100, AG wrote:
> Brian Marshall wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:25:44AM +0100, AG wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver is started automagically whilst I
>>> have to kill gnome-screensaver and start xscreensaver manually.
>>>
>>
>> If you want to stop gnome-screensaver from starting automatically,
>> setting the the gconf pref
>> /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver to false
>> should work.
>>
>>
>>> AG
>>>
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Brian - that sounds about right. How do I access that switch? I
> have gconf listed in /etc and /usr/share but beyond this in
> /usr/share/gconf there are sub-directories which seem to contain a
> number of xml files with the suffix *.schemas
>
> Cheers
>
> AG
Sorry I haven't replied, my hard drive died so I haven't had a chance.
gconf-editor is the graphical program for changing gconf entries. There's
also the non-interactive gconftool-2.
Brian
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