Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver
On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:52:42 +0400 Jerome BENOIT
<sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net> wrote:
> Hello Debian Users,
>
> I have recently upgraded my box from Jessie to Stretch.
> I encountered a few little issues that I could fixed easily.
> Nevertheless, so far, I failed to fixed one of them, and a very
> annoying one.
>
> During Xfce sessions, at random time my screen is filled with piece
> of outdated images that were created by xscreensaver.
> Most of the time, these images comes with an outdated error message
> from xscreensaver.
>
> Any hint to fix is is welcome.
Instead of wasting time looking for the problem, I would first just
'apt-get purge xscreensaver' making sure all configure files are gone,
then reinstall, reconfigure.
Or do what I did: dispense with a screensaver entirely. Haven't used
one in years. Waste of CPU cycles. Besides modern computer screens
don't even need them anymore. They aren't prone to image burning
like tube-type monitors were. I just use xset or a power management
utility, if installed, to "sleep" the monitor display after a set time
of system idleness. Works great.
B
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