make xscreensaver autostart

[lowey23]

Just when I thought I was getting the hang of this........................

Trying to get xscreensaver to run automatically at startup so I don't have to manually start it every time I boot. I have seen on the forums you just add a softlink(?) to it in your ~/.kde/Autostart.

Would someone be good enough to explain slowly and precisely how I do this, please.
I know it's not a big deal, but it's a minor annoyance to me on an otherwise lovely system, and I'd really like to find out how you do this.

Thanks in advance
Lowey

[lowey23]

Re: make xscreensaver autostart

Just trying to get this up the list again in the hope that someone may help me with it.
Cheers (and sorry if i'm being a pain)
Lowey

[analyticalman]

Re: make xscreensaver autostart

If I understand what you are saying right I'm puzzled because it should autostart anyway - have you selected the screensaver through the system settings? Have you downloaded your screensavers using adept?

[lowey23]

Re: make xscreensaver autostart

Thanks for your reply, analyticalman. The screensavers were downloaded from the repos with synaptic. When I restart my machine, I have to go to Settings->Screensaver-> and there is an XScreenSavers window which says "Warning : The xscreensaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on display ":0.0". Launch it now?" I hit the ok button and everything works well. As I said, it's not a big deal, but it would be nice if it would just start without me having to do that. Thanks for your time.
Cheers
Lowey

[analyticalman]

Re: make xscreensaver autostart

Well - there's an answer here - dunno if it'll help - or as I'n supposed to say YMMV

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...124#post682124

[lowey23]

Re: make xscreensaver autostart

Thanks again for your reply, analyticalman. The problem I have, being very new at this, is exactly what to add to ~/.kde/Autostart and how exactly do I do it. I know it's probably a very simple procedure but sometimes us old blokes need a fair bit of steering in the right direction.
Cheers, Lowey.

[analyticalman]

Re: make xscreensaver autostart

Try this

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html#10

Remember - Google is your friend!

[lowey23]

Re: make xscreensaver autostart

Thanks very much for your time and patience, analyticalman. That has done the trick for me. I can now turn on my machine and have the cows bouncing without any interference from me.
Cheers (and thanks again)
Lowey