#Configure xscreensaver password

Making the “New login” function work with lightdm(1) Since potentially all users work with privacy sensitive data. Maybe two years from now when the next LTS rolls around.This module installs and globally configuresĭisabling all colorful 3D graphics “screensavers”Įnforcing a lock mechanism after some inactivity, Don't want to experience the configure xscreensaver ordeal for the time being. You create/manage one or more text configuration files (system wide ones, and /.Xdefaults ), these are loaded into the X server by during the startup process, and applications can query the relevant settings instead of (though often as well as) custom configuration files. I plan to leave my systems alone for the time being because xscreensaver is working on both Xubuntu 12.10 and LM Maya Xfce. Maybe they are useful to people who do not have any pictures or who do not have any non-volatile storage in their computer. I don't care about any other screensaver than the Slideshow. Hopefully, there will, some day, be a better screensaver available. I don't know why, but after investing all the time getting xscreensaver working, I decided to leave well enough alone and not bother trying to get a newer version.

Instead, an older version of xscreensaver is in the repositories. These updates are not available for *buntu 12.04. Incidentally, JWZ has released several updates (bug fixes) for xscreensaver in 2012, as one can observe by visiting his entertaining and well-designed web site. Each one I change so that the 'Impact' font is loaded instead of 'Helvetica.' Not because I like Impact, or because I want Impact, but because Helvetica causes the error message. I think two or three config files? I always forget which one, so I just hunt for them all and change them all. No, not the same config file, a different one. Finally I discovered that a hidden config file needs to be modified. That required several hours of research to fix.

Next, xscreensaver displays error message on screen due to lack of the 'Helvetica' font. I don't know why there are options like Pan / Fade and other things that distort or move the picture. Move the slider arrow until it looks like maybe 1/5th of the arbitrary 5 minute maximum. When changing the settings for GL-slideshow, a slider controls amount of time each pic displays. In GL-slideshow, changing the pic directory requires modifying a file or more than one file. This feature is turned on in Ubuntu if you want to try it out. This lets you start a new X session after the screen has locked. When you talk about configuring xscreensaver 'hacks' that operate on data sources you arent really configuring the 'hack' itself - you actually configure xscreensaver to provide data to these 'hacks' via command line programs (xscreensaver-getimage-desktop, xscreensaver-getimage-file, xscreensaver-getimage-video, xscreensaver-text).

#Configure xscreensaver password

The problem is in GL-slideshow, which to my way of thinking is the only screensaver, the rest being fillers or for people that do not have storage. Switch users from XScreenSaver James Henstridge 5 December, 2005 Uncategorized Joao: you can configure XScreenSaver to show a Switch User button in it’s password dialog (which calls gdmflexiserver when run). Xscreenaver has been broken for years, so that is probably why LM replaced it with gnome-screensaver. I always forget all the hoops I have to jump through to get it working right, so I have to spend couple hours on research before I can find all the little secrets that are hidden in various places on the Internet. I will say that xscreensaver was difficult to configure in all linux distros. Does that one even have a slideshow? I am not interested in any screensaver without a configurable slideshow. I don't know much about gnome-screensaver. I use xscreensaver myself in Linux Mint Maya Xfce, but it was the default for that version (13, LTS).