enable xscreensaver daemon with fluxbox

[J. Scott Amort]

Hi All,

I've just recently set up a couple of gentoo boxes, and am really
enjoying this distro! However, I can't seem to get xscreensaver to run
without manually starting the daemon (i.e. xscreensaver -nosplash) in a
command line. I use fluxbox, and have tried to add it the fluxbox
Xsession, the .xsession and .xinitrc files in my home directory, and
within the gdm.conf settings, all to no avail. No error messages, but
xscreensaver doesn't show up when I do a ps -e, and of course the screen
saver never kicks in. How do I have xscreensaver start automatically
with fluxbox? Thanks for any help.

Best,
Scott


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[Phil Sexton]

Post by J. Scott Amort
Hi All,
I've just recently set up a couple of gentoo boxes, and am really
enjoying this distro! However, I can't seem to get xscreensaver to run
without manually starting the daemon (i.e. xscreensaver -nosplash) in a
command line. I use fluxbox, and have tried to add it the fluxbox
Xsession, the .xsession and .xinitrc files in my home directory, and
within the gdm.conf settings, all to no avail. No error messages, but
xscreensaver doesn't show up when I do a ps -e, and of course the screen
saver never kicks in. How do I have xscreensaver start automatically
with fluxbox? Thanks for any help.

I boot to command line and use startx, so I can do it through my
.xinitrc file.

# Duron 950 box "uilleann" user fancy .xinitrc file
# Start the stuff I want to run when I startx

# The artwiz-fonts sometimes conflict with your locale settings. To get
# them to work you may have to put the following at the beginning of
# your .xinitrc file
export LC=C
export LC_ALL=C

# Set the background for fluxbox
# Esetroot ~/backgrounds/linux.png &

# Start gkrellm and put it in the slit
gkrellm -w &

# Start the keyboard hotkeys
acme &

# This will run a screensaver as your background
# /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/hopalong -root &

# Start the screensaver daemon
xscreensaver -no-splash &

# Finally, I start my window manager
exec fluxbox
# exec kde
# exec gnome-session
# exec startxfce4