On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 14:06:40 -0700
Paul Zimmerman <aiwa...@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?
> 
> 

my xscreensaver was acting a little wonky and it turns out that 
xscreensaver-data was not installed and it was trying to use somethnig from 
there.

that reminds me- i need to file a bugreport about that.

Brian


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