(running Mate, will soon upgrade back to 17.3, almost everything I wanted to be taken care of has been taken care of. So back to the screensaver options, how can I make one of the services truly takeover, cleanly? Thanks. I also made some hardening yesterday with Lynis (I'll speak about this in another thread, there's a ssh option that they really say I should disable, but again it was the only one I wasn't sure after making a simple Lynis pass of my system, where I corrected some ssh and php weaknesses, although i'm not running a website from my home desktop it seems I have no choice but to keep some php related packages, or else it would break the system hardcore if I was to do so.saw what it said it would remove in synaptic and i thought hmmn.no not ready to purge away over a 100 packages. Or maybe that forced reboot (everything stopped working and somehow doing ctrl+alt+del rebooted Mint, and not with the green dots of death. I'd really like for the old Screensavers to be disabled entirely, not sure how to do this, i mean I unchecked all that needed unchecking and replaced every single relevant option in the second, I guess Xscreensaver option window. It doesn't seem to play nice and the screensavers are neat, but none are as amazing as those on my mother's desktop, last time I visited her, I didn't have the time to look at her screensaver options, but, is it Mint 17.3 that brings in a bunch of screensavers or it's a PPA I put on her system that brought all of 'em? Is it because I upgraded her system to Mint 17.3 ? She has a lame onboard graphic adapter, so the open source driver is good enough for her Compaq AMD Phenom II with 3 processors, or is it 4? Anyway, it seems like a fight has erupted between both screensaver options, and sometimes the xscreensaver, when I decided to make it lock the screen (need my PW to log back in after the mouse has been moven sometimes kind of crashes, I mean I get back into the system, but a lot of buggy screens and lucky alt+tab to bring me to a screen where I can start system-monitor and end the whole thing with a kill command. ![]() I'm actually embarrassed though, my mom has those crazy beautiful space pictures screensavers and I don't remember installing any of this for her. One has the generic ones that come with Mint, including the one I used for a very long time, the simple MATE icon sceensaver. I now have 2 Screensaver options in System->Prefs. I've installed all of this, and being a Pharmacologist, the Molecules screensaver was quick for me to fall in love with. If you want screen lock, it's available in xscreensaver. FYI, the developer reports having received complaints about XFCE power manager conflicting with xscreensaver, so probably best to turn off that screen lock setting. Each contains a set of screensaver images, which are then used by the base package (which controls when they are activated).Īs a test, installed in an XFCE 18.3 virtual machine and seemed to work fine. On top of that you want one or more of xscreensaver-data, xscreensaver-gl, xscreensaver-data-extra and xscreensaver-gl-extra. Can be done with Software Manager or Synaptic (or command line, for that matter). What you're looking for is called xscreensaver and it's still available in the repos. ![]() This bugged me all day, as I recalled seeing a thread not long ago but couldn't recall how it turned out.
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