Disable screensaver in LXDE

Ipolit · 08-05-2009, 01:51 AM

Hello all,
I want to disable screensaver in LXDE. The PC has xscreensaver and I've chmoded /usr/bin/xscreensaver to 000. Also from the menu/preferences/screensaver I have chosen Mode - Disable screensaver, but it still goes.
Any sugestions?

weibullguy · 08-05-2009, 08:57 PM

Since LXDE is built around Openbox, it uses ~/.config/Openbox/autostart.sh to auto start apps. When I use Openbox, I start xscreensaver with this file. Check and see if it is the same on your machine and then comment out the line that starts the screensaver.

Ipolit · 08-06-2009, 01:07 AM

No such file
I have in .config autostart directory and I put there things needed to start, but definitely xscreensaver is not there. The worst is that I have configured it with its GUI to blank monitor at the longest available time - 720 mins, but it's not working.

weibullguy · 08-06-2009, 02:10 AM

Why don't you uninstall xscreensaver?

Ipolit · 08-06-2009, 07:35 AM

Code:

apt-get remove xscreensaver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  leafpad lxde-common pcmanfm lxappearance gpicview lxpanel
  lxde-settings-daemon
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  lxde xscreensaver
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 135 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2228kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

No, thanks

weibullguy · 08-06-2009, 09:33 AM

Weird, xscreensaver isn't a dependency for any of those packages. The Arch wiki has a discussion about autostarted programs in LXDE with some additional files and directories for you to check --> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE.