Debian 7 and screensavers
Hello.
On my Debian 7.8 system, both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver, are
shown as being installed, and, now, to try to get a screensaver to
work, I have downloaded hundreds of MB of extra stuff, to try to find
a screensaver that works on Debian 7, so I also, now, apparently, have
the kscreensaver (and thence, kde and kdm, and k*).
But, in traversing through the menu's in the GNOME Classic interface,
no screensaver is listed, that can be found, and, in going to the
System Tools -> Administration and System Tools -> Preferences,
nothing is displayed, that refers to screensavers.
Does Debian 7 allow screensavers, that lock a screen, and require
logging in, either when the system has no external input for a defined
period of time, or, when a person manually invokes the "Lock screen"
functionality?
If so, how do I get a screensaver to work, in Debian 7?
I realise that alot of fuinctionality was lost to Linux, with the
abandoning of GNOME2, but, surely, if screensavers can be installed,
and, are installed, on Debian 7, there must be a way to show their
presence (other than a package manager showing them to be installed),
and, to get one of them, working?
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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