This keyboard shortcut reassignment also works in Ubuntu 16.04. You can decommission the Ctrl+ Alt+ L shortcut from gnome-screensaver and assign it to a new command for xscreensaver: xscreensaver-command -lock Using xscreensaver will circumvent that particular problem. stretch (oldoldstable) (x11): Screensaver daemon and frontend for X11 5.36-1: amd64 arm64. This causes unwanted delays when unlocking screen. Many have complained when locking screen with Ctrl+ Alt+ L external monitors blank instantly and those with dpms are switched off. I do not agree with the strong language of the developer but felt it better to include the history rather than hide it. Set "Turn screen off when inactive for" to "Never." Open "System Settings / Brightness & Lock" Unity's locking "feature" with xscreensaver, let me know.)
#Xscreensaver how to
Reinventing that wheel, guys! (If you have figured out how to replace Removed, and yet still manages to be bug-addled and insecure. Apparently it has its own built-in screen locker which is not gnome-screensaver, and cannot be Sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command Make GNOME's "Lock Screen" use xscreensaver. Select "Startup Applications" from the menu (or manually launch "gnome-session-properties") and add "xscreensaver". To replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver:įully uninstall the gnome-screensaver package. "gnome-screensaver" program is insecure, bug-ridden, and missing manyįeatures of xscreensaver. Xscreensaver and contributing their changes back. Xscreensaver daemon called "gnome-screensaver", rather than improving In 2005, however, theyĭecided to re-invent the wheel and ship their own replacement for the I'm also including a short paragraph of history from the developer.įor the better part of a decade, GNOME shipped xscreensaver as-is,Īnd everything just worked out of the box. I will point out extra steps recommended by the xscxreensaver developer. Radu's answer is a good one so I won't duplicate it. Source and more about: How to Add Screensavers to Ubuntu 12.04. Just run these commands to uninstall XScreenSaver and reinstall gnome-screensaver: sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra The name and comment here can be anything you like: xscreensaver -nosplash
Add a startup program with the following command. Get started by launching the Startup Applications utility from the Dash. If it doesn’t start, it can’t notice your system is idle and launch screensavers. To actually use the screensavers, you'll want XScreenSaver to start in the background each time you log in. You can specify the screensavers it chooses from or enable "Only One Screensaver" mode to always use your favorite screensaver.
The Screensaver utility will prompt you to stop the gnome-screensaver process and launch the xscreensaver background process when you start it.īy default, XScreenSaver will choose a random screensaver each time it starts. Though as far as I can tell, this answer is the most relevant to the actual solution. Launch the Screensaver utility and use it to configure XScreenSaver and select your screensaver settings. The problem has resolved itself because of the reinstalled Arch, and the fact that xfce4 has now a good built-in screensaver (so, no xscreensaver anymore).
#Xscreensaver install
Install XScreenSaver and some additional screensaver packages with the following command: sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extraĪfter installation, perform a search in the Dash for Screensaver. Open a terminal and run the following command to uninstall gnome-screensaver: sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
The GNOME developers think a black screen that puts your monitor into lower-power mode is optimal. Ubuntu uses gnome-screensaver and inherited the change from upstream GNOME. Screensavers were actually removed back in Ubuntu 11.10. If you’d rather have screensavers, you can swap gnome-screensaver for XScreenSaver.
#Xscreensaver movie
Of course I fall on the other side of the fence I know what the movie looked like but I still want cyan matrix text, darn it! I figured deviation from the green text would be an automatic disqualification upstream.Starting with 12.04, Ubuntu doesn't ship with any screensavers, just a black screen that appears when your system is idle. * character at a time, not a pixel at a time. * were, in fact, low resolution and somewhat blurry/ * In particular, note that the characters in the movie
* diffs to try and figure that out for myself. * make this screensaver behave more like the displays * your changes are, and *why* you think those changes * your patch, please explain, in English, both *what* * If you've made changes to xmatrix, when you send me * it better!'' Mostly this hasn't been true. * patches to this all the time saying, ``here, I made Thank you for the suggestion! I haven't tried that because of a comment JWZ added to the top of hacks/xmatrix.c which reads: * NOTE:
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