On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Stan Brown wrote: > What's the trick to geting xscreensaver to run, whicle gdm is displaying > alogin prompt? > > I added to /etc/X11/gdm/Postsession, the following > > /usr/X11R6/bin/screensaver -display $DISPLAY -no-splash -timeout 5 0nice 10 > > But I don't see the process runing. > See man page for xscreensaver... It doesn't lock/run as root because of safety reasons. It just drops privileges & refuses to do anything else. gdm runs as root...
Command> xscreensaver -nosplash & [1] 7019 ---([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(05:13:22)--(/home/lts)--- Command> ---([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(05:13:23)--(/home/lts)--- Command> ps -ef | grep xsc nobody 7019 6970 15 05:13 pts/5 00:00:00 xscreensaver -nosplash ---([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(05:13:27)--(/home/lts)--- Command> xscreensaver-command -lock xscreensaver-command: locking not enabled. ---([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(05:13:34)--(/home/lts)--- Command>
