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. When I used Gnome, the xscreensaver daemon was invoked automatically. Ill tell you: redshift reduces the blue when its dark, numlockx chooses it for you so when you log in you can use your number keys, lxpanel gives me a panel with a tray, compton makes things prettier, thunar is the file manager that you dont have to autolaunch as a daemon at all if you dont want to, xscreensaver does what it says. 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. When Xscreensaver and all the other packages are installed you can close the terminal window.
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 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.
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So here is a new how to install post for Xscreensaver and the BSOD Xscreensaver packages. 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and the bsod screensaver packages on Ubuntu 20.04 and noticed that my old post about installing them was a bit out of date.
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