[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Screen saver for graphical login?

[Richard Wolfe]

Thanks, Kyle. Just now got around to trying this out and it
works like a champ. Thanks for the work-around.

-Richard


--- Kyle Davenport <Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com> wrote:
> yeah , sorry.  I guess the "new and improved" gnome2 did us
> in.   I tried
> it too and I see BackgroundProgram is not even run!  My hack
> was to replace
> /usr/bin/gdmgreeter with a link to /usr/local/bin/screensaver,
> where you
> can finally do what you want as user gdm.  Mine looks like
> this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /usr/bin/X11/xscreensaver -nosplash &
> /usr/bin/gdmgreeter-bin
> 
> 
> I mv'd /usr/bin/gdmgreeter to /usr/bin/gdmgreeter-bin and cp'd
> ~/.xscreensaver to ~gdm.  I noticed xscreensaver runs until I
> login, then
> dies, but I guess that's ok since x-windows restarts on log
> out.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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