I am trying to get xscreensaver to autostart. I am not having much luck. I have tried to make an executable file in .kde, but for some reason it seems to mess up my desktop, I have no idea why, but each time I try to make a launcher file in .kde/Autostart it seems to not allow me to click on other applications and run them on my desktop. I have looked into man xscreensaver but I am not finding anything that can help me launch my screensaver at start up in slackware, unless I am missing something. Please point me in the right direction

Thank you!

In KDE go to Settings, then system settings, then "start up and shutdown" and under "autostart," "desktop file," "add a program."

In the command box simply enter, xscreensaver
Name it xscreensaver, if you like, or whatever name.
Once saved it, make sure you put a check in the little box to "Enable Startup."
Next time you start KDE, the xscreensaver dameon will start automatically.

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The above works great, an alternate method is to add the line below to your /home/"user"/.xinitrc. Either way works though, which ever is best for your situation .

xscreensaver -no-splash &

BTW, if you haven't already done so, go into Settings, Power Management, and uncheck
"Screen Energy Saving."

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@ Daedra,
Good one!

Hmm not sure if I am doing it incorrectly, I have tried both methods, but still not working.

Based on the second method ill show you some output.

bash-4.3$ cat .xinitrc.sh
xscreensaver -no-splash &

bash-4.3$ ls -l .xinitrc.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27 Jul 16 01:36 .xinitrc.sh

In system settings> configure energy settings> i have deselected Screen_energy saving

Xscreensaver will work if I do xscreensaver & its just when rebooting and logging in it will not automatically start.

Well first thing its not .xinitrc.sh. Did you make that file manually? Log out of X and at the terminal type "xwmconfig" this will bring up your windows manager/desktop environment choices. After you choose the one you want you should now have the .xinitrc file in your home directory. From there you can add the "xscreensaver -no-splash &" line. For instance I use Mate desktop and here is my .xinitrc file

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

xscreensaver -no-splash &

# merge in defaults and keymaps

[ -f $sysresources ] && xrdb -merge $sysresources
[ -f $sysmodmap ] && xmodmap $sysmodmap
[ -f $userresources ] && xrdb -merge $userresources
[ -f $usermodmap ] && xmodmap $usermodmap

if [ -z "$DESKTOP_SESSION" -a -x /usr/bin/ck-launch-session ]; then
export DESKTOP_SESSION="mate"
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session mate-session
else
export DESKTOP_SESSION="mate"
exec mate-session
fi

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I mustve done something wrong the first time I tried to do it the way cwizardone advised. It is now working thanks everyone