I am also not totally happy with shipping a desktop file in /etc/xdg, I would have preferred if there was a /usr/share/xdg to put it in, so a system administrator could override it easily in /etc/xdg if he installs several screensavers or just wants to hide it. Note that also gnome-screensaver ships its activated desktop file in /etc/xdg, but it is maybe not a good example to follow.
We should have a way that people can easily make the screensaver active by turning it on in their desktop environment autostart manager (like gnome-session-properties), unless it is enabled by default. Coping system files around is not really satisfactory. Back to the original issue, xscreensaver will refuse to start if another screensaver like xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver is already running. Maybe kscreensaver is missing this check? If kscreensaver would be fixed, this whole story would be a non-issue. Seems like xscreensaver is the only intelligent and "polite" one among its peers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
