CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER HOW TO
CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER INSTALL
CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER MANUAL
CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER PASSWORD

Click on the OK button and now you can select one or more screensaver(s). When Xscreensaver is started for the first time you’ll get a message saying that the Xscreensaver daemon isn’t running on your display and asks you if you want to start it. To start Xscreensaver for the first time click on the Show Apllications button and type: screensaver. To add the rule follow these steps:Įnter the following command in the command field:īefore you can start Xscreensaver you need to change the blank screen option to Never, to do this go to Settings -> Power -> Power Settings and select Never. To start Xscreensaver at boot you need to create a startup rule for Xscreensaver, to do this click on the Applications button and type: Startup Applications.

CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER INSTALL

When Xscreensaver and all the other packages are installed you can close the terminal window. Install XScreenSaver and some additional screensaver packages with the following command: sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra. Finally, go to System Settings / Brightness & Lock. Set the 'Blank after x minutes' to your desired amount (e.g. To install XScreenSaver and the BSOD xscreensaver package open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste the following line: sudo apt install xscreensaver xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod -y You need to bring up the xscreensaver config app. The BSOD screen saver module for XScreenSaver is a package that shows the popular Blue Screens of Death from several OSes including BSD, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Apple and much more…. XScreenSaver is a large collection of screen savers and it is also the framework for blanking and locking the screen. Its configured through the /.xscreensaver file and setup is done (IIRC: its been 15 years since I used it) through the xscreensaver-demo tool. Its gonna work the way it works, and its developer (JWZ) is quite () opinionated about how it should work.

CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER HOW TO

So here is a new how to install post for Xscreensaver and the BSOD Xscreensaver packages. XScreenSaver is a very established program: it was stable roughly 20 years ago. I wanted to install the Xscreensaver and the bsod screensaver packages on Ubuntu 20.04 and noticed that my old post about installing them was a bit out of date. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fingerprint, fprint, freebsd, pam, pkg, pkgng, port, xscreensaver by gawen.

I’ll repeat that because it’s important: The easy way to configure xscreensaver is to run the xscreensaver-demo (1) program.

CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER MANUAL

The rest of this manual page describes lower level ways of changing settings. I don’t know what is the cause of this, but I’ll find out. The easiest way to configure xscreensaver is to simply run the xscreensaver-demo (1) program, and change the settings through the GUI. I still have a problem with PAM which sometime does not detect the reader and cannot even authenticate with pam_unix. However I still wonder why they disabled this by default. So you can reinstall xscreensaver from the ports and configure it with the PAM option enabled. It turns out that the xscreensaver package does not enable the PAM option. You can check that via pkg info xscreensaver or use ldd /usr/local/bin/xscreensaver to check if xscreensaver is effectively linked with libpam.so. However I installed xscreensaver as a package, and not from the ports.

Therefore I added one for xscreensaver but it didn’t change anything.

There were no configuration for xscreensaver in /etc/pam.d so I initially thought that it fell back on the “ other” configuration.

CONFIGURE XSCREENSAVER PASSWORD

Except for xscreensaver which still confined itself password authentification. Though if you want I may describe the process in a separate article, just tell me.Īfter the configuration, everybody from the display manager to su asked to authenticate with the reader. I will not describe the process of configuring the fingerprint reader on FreeBSD as it has been documented many times on the Internet. Today I configured the fingerprint reader on my Thinkpad X201.

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