On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 14:06:40 -0700 Paul Zimmerman <aiwanar@yahoo.com> wrote: > Just a minor annoyance. Every time I install Debian with my favored > desktop environment, XFCE, I get a different result with the > screensaver. Not even between different versions. I can literally > install twice from the same install disk and get different behavior. > Sometimes the screensaver daemon just won't start at all and it's not > possible to use a screensaver with that install. Other times it will > only turn off the display, not run a configured screensaver. And yet > other times it will run the screensaver but won't accept any time > settings. It just uses its own default from some unknown location and > cannot be changed. Apparently this has something to do with XFCE not > being the default desktop for Debian, and so there is a conflict with > something else that was intended to work with KDE and/or Gnome? Is > there some simple way to uninstall the "default" whatever it is and > fix/reinstall the XFCE screensaver? AFAIK, Xfce does not have a screensaver as such (if you mean animations and/or pictures and such), it just blanks and turns the screen off. The settings are under Settings -> Power Manager -> Display. If you want more functionality than that, I would try something like xscreensaver. You might want to disable Xfce power management of the display for that to work properly, I have never tried. If you want a screen locker, one that works well with Xfce (provided you use lightdm) is light-locker. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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