XScreenSaver is a collection of free screensavers. It can be used as an alternative to gnome-screensaver.
Questions tagged [xscreensaver]
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How do I theme the xscreensaver unlock screen?
How can I replace ugly screensaver unlock screen in Xubuntu 11.10?
Standard xscreensaver is very ugly.
Is there any themes for unlock screen?
user36594
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Ugly lock screen in Xubuntu
when I lock my screen, I don't get the nice login dialog which is present after my laptop reboot. I get something ugly similar to this:
I googled this picture, it is not exact screenshot, but it is almost the same. How can I fix this? Is it…
Honza Javorek
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How Do I Use a Photos Directory as my Screensaver?
I just upgraded to version 11.10 and found how to enable xscreensaver. However, I'm very disappointed that I don't have the option to use my photos directory as a screen saver option.
What do I have to do to use a photos directory as my…
Evie
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How to prevent screen locking when lid is closed?
I have Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 (no Unity), gnome-screen-saver has been removed and replaced with xscreensaver. The screensaver stuff all works fine -- no complaints there. When I close my laptop lid, even for a second, the screen locks (and the…
Joe Casadonte
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How do I set Xscreensaver to autostart?
I've just installed xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu 12.04 in gnome-session-fallback (Gnome Classic) mode. It works fine, but I have a problem:
I put "xscreensaver -no-splash" command to the startup applications list.
But it…
balping
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Stop Xscreensaver from locking screen once screensaver starts
I have installed Lubuntu 12.04 and was wondering if there was a way to keep it from locking the screen when the screensaver starts?
The "lock screen after X minutes" box is unchecked, so that is not causing the problem. Does anyone know the solution…
206airmail
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Please explain the parameters 'noexpose' and 'cycle' in xset
I have been trying for a long time to prevent my screen from blanking every 20 minutes. I understand there are many interlocking layers of applications that can do this and it is not straightforward at all to achieve this behavior. Here is a good…
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use web page or html file as a screensaver?
I heard that xscreensaver can run anything as a screensaver but I don't know how to do so. Can I use it to make a web page from an html file my screensaver?
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How to disable xscreensaver lock on suspend?
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have installed xscreensaver.
As I am the only user on this computer and I am only using the computer for music, movies, and some web browsing I have no need for the extra security of a lock…
Joe
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Lightlocker and Xscreensaver conflicting
I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 but found gnome too heavy for my old hardware.
So I installed Xubuntu-desktop:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop synaptic
sudo apt-get remove gdm3
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
sudo apt-get remove nautilus…
Thiago Garcia
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Can I replace the XScreenSaver lock dialog with the version from Gnome-Screensaver
Im using Ubuntu 11.10, with XFCE and xscreensaver, the xscreensaver configurator is nice but the unlock dialog is ugly.
I tried gnome-screensaver, but it only gives me a blank screen.
So, can I have the gnome-screensaver unlock dialog with…
Amith KK
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How do I stop xscreensaver during movies play?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. I installed xscreensaver in place of gnome.screensaver.
My problem is that I cannot get the screensaver to stop popping up when I'm watching a movie on Movie Player. I have Movie Player set to disable screensavers but it's…
Chris26284
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How do I switch between users, without logging out?
I am using Lubuntu, my desktop environment is lxQt and screensaver is xScreensaver.
I'm trying to figure out a way to switch between users, (e.g. when pressing Meta + L).
Even though, it is possible to lock the screen with xscreensaver, I'm unable…
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How do I configure xscreensaver to use the GNOME lockscreen on Ubuntu 14.04?
I'd like xscreensaver to lock my session using the standard GNOME lockscreen, instead of using the horrible 1990's xscreensaver lockscreen prompt (sorry guys but it needs a facelift). I know this is possible because I have this configuration…
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Replacing xscreensaver with gnome-screensaver, problems(Xubuntu)
I found this helpful question Replace xscreensaver With gnome-screensaver (Xubuntu) but the executable gnome-screensaver-preferences can't be found. So I'm not sure what to do, to get gnome-screensaver working correctly.
How do I configure it if…
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