[openbox] auto-starting xscreensaver

[Das]

I'm going to assume we are all Geeks, otherwise we wouldn't have a clue as
to what Openbox is, let alone Linux for a lot of the world too.

I'm also assuming you're running a fairly recent LCD panel? If so, screen
savers are pointless and save nothing and do nothing.

Also if you really want to save the life of a screen you're better off
letting the monitor sleep....

Here's a good article;

http://www.howtogeek.com/128644/htg-explains-why-screen-savers-are-no-longer-necessary/


Cheers




On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/02/13 00:46, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 02:08:44PM +1100, Robbie Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/02/13 03:49, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  The simplest (though non-XDG) way is to edit
>>> ~/.config/openbox/autostart and add the following two lines:
>>>
>>> xscreensaver-command -exit &
>>> xscreensaver -no-splash &
>>>
>>> The first kills a running instance (such as when you log out and log
>>> back in), and the second starts a new one.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for this suggestion.
>>
>> Actually XDG scripts were not being executed because I used
>>
>> 'exec openbox'
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> 'exec openbox-session'
>>
>> in my ~/.xsession file. However this raises another question: I use this
>> line in my ~/.xsession file to set the background:
>>
>> xli -quiet -onroot ~/img/${HOSTNAME}.jpg
>>
>> as I have a collection of images for each of my computers. The problem
>> is that 'openbox-session' resets the background to a solid color whereas
>> 'openbox' does not. And there is no expansion of ${HOSTNAME} in
>> ~/.config/openbox/autostart
>>
>> Is there a way around this?
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>>  You can have different things in different initialisation files. My
> autostart file is fairly sparse; I’ve also got some scripts loaded in
> ~/.xprofile and ~/.xsession that are sourced by my login manager (LXDM). So
> I configure tmux sessions and keyboard settings there as they are
> WM/DE-independent.
>
> My login process proceeds as follows:
>
> LXDM sources its Xsession, which in turn sources /etc/profile, ~/.profile,
> /etc/xprofile and ~/.xprofile, if they exist. After that, it starts
> Openbox, which sources its autostart, environment and rc.xml files.
>
> How are you starting X?
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