This depends which value you have within your sktop file on line 4: Exec=xscreensaver -nosplash. XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System. On my computer it's in /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop, then open it in an editor (terminal 'nano' may be best as you will need sudo commands to open it) and change 'Applicaton' to 'Application'.Īlso, different tutorials (such as liberiangeek and Radu's response) suggest using: "xscreensaver -nosplash"Īs the fix above uses. This should, somewhere in the list, tell you where sktop is. To find out if this is the issue: first run locate sktop.
#Xscreensaver for ubuntu how to#
This tutorial shows you how to install XScreenSaver on Ubuntu 18.04/Ubuntu 19.04 and how to autostart it at boot time. Ubuntu ships with the gnome-screensaver, but it never worked out of the box.
Into your startup list, it would not work as xscreensaver is not set up with the type application. XScreensaver is a screen saver and locker for the X11 display server. Therefore, if you have already entered the command "xscreensaver -no-splash" This tutorial intention is to show you how to add screen savers in Ubuntu 12. This causes the startup command to not work. 'Application' has been misspelt as 'Applicaton'. However, for some reason, in many of these tutorials, the above command is incorrect. They tell you to set up a sktop file with the following command: sudo gedit /etc/xdg/autostart/sktopĪnd then place inside it the following information: As no answer has been marked as correct yet this could be this issue with running xscreensaver on startupĪs says here, many of the tutorials for setting up xscreensaver provide incorrect information.
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