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Minor gripes: Debian xscreensaver, et al.
Annorax:
On my Debian Sarge box, xscreensaver doesn't start automatically on login or startup. I want it to do this. How can I make it start with KDE/the system.
Also, does anyone have a line on a relatively inexpensive adapter that'll let me use an old Apple ADB extended keyboard with said Debian box?
piratePenguin:
Add "xscreensaver &" to the end of your ~/.xinitrc file (if it doesn't exist, create it).
Pathos:
is there any difference with :
xscreensaver &> /dev/null &
?
prehaps only knoppix based systems really need that because of how the terminal is setup.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Pathos ---is there any difference with :
xscreensaver &> /dev/null &
?
prehaps only knoppix based systems really need that because of how the terminal is setup.
--- End quote ---
Same enough, you just won't get messages printed to the terminal (you don't really need them. Only one I know of is "xscreensaver: 00:36:22: already running on display :0.0 (window 0xe00001)
from process 530 (piratepenguin@localhost).").
BTW I don't think the last '&' would ever have any effect (but I'm not sure).
H_TeXMeX_H:
The & is there if you want to keep processes running ... that's what it says in the fluxbox startup script ... like if I ran "gkrellm" instead of "gkrellm &" the process would start and then quit as soon as the script exited :) So yeah, it should probably be in there ;)
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