[kde-linux] Adding to Autostart

Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. s.molnar at sbcglobal.net
Sat Aug 20 23:31:10 UTC 2005


Thanks for your reply.

On Saturday  August 20, 2005 5:08 pm, roach wrote:
> On Saturday 20 August 2005 20:36, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> <...>
>
> > > Globally by placing a "Link to program" .desktop file into the global
> > > autostart directory $(kde-config --prefix)/share/autostart or by
> > > placing into the user's autostart directory $(kde-config --userpath
> > > autostart)
> >
> > and the command(s) to accomplish this are?????
>
> ~/.kde/Autostart/xscreensaver.desktop :
> [Desktop Entry]
> Exec=xscreensaver
> Name=XScreensaver
> Type=Application
> X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
>
> BTW, are you sure you need this? I only needed this once because of a bug
> in Mandrake. Most other distro's handle xscreensaver fine through:
>
> KMenu > Control Center > Appearance & Themes > Screen Saver

This is for the KDE screensaver.  Unfortunately, that version doesn't have the 
molecule screensaver.  That one is found in xscreensaver.

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