Re: need to remove screen saver

you'd be serving better this users' list by providing solutions for
people who ask for them, rather than picking apart another user's post
who offers solutions that work.

When I talk about multiple X-sessions I am not referring to remote
X-sessions. When you talk about multiple simultaneous users on windows
you're thinking remote desktops. This is not the same thing. Last I
checked, you can't sit in front of a windows xp box and logon
(physically not remotely) as 3-4-5-6 different users as you can on
Linux.

"GNOME doesn't have a "Switch user" menu entry like KDE ?"
I don't know what Gnome or KDE has. I use Fluxbox as my desktop
manager; however I do most of my work on the command line. I'm
guessing it probably does. Got me there! 1-0 for you.

Enils


On Feb 12, 2008 12:42 PM, Buchan Milne <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 02 February 2008 05:09:00 Enils wrote:
> > Paula,
> >
> > You have a few choices:
> > 1. You can uninstall the screensaver program altogether. If you're
> > running Gnome as your desktop manager, chances are you're using
> > gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver. Do a "apropos screensaver" or rpm
> > -qa | grep screensaver to find out which one you're running.
> > 2. Unlike Windows, Linux has multiple X-displays.
>
> Windows XP, when not joined to a domain, does allow multiple simultaneous
> users.
>
> > If a user has logged
> > on and the screensaver is on, simply hit "Ctrl-alt-F1" or
> > "Ctrl-alt-F2" or any other up to F6. The main desktop by default runs
> > on F7. Once you've done that, logon as another user and issue this
> > command: "startx -- :8" . This will open another X without disrupting
> > the first user's session. It does not have to be 8, you can also use
> > 9, 10 and so on. You can switch between X-sessions using
> > Ctrl-Alt-F<display number>.
>
> GNOME doesn't have a "Switch user" menu entry like KDE ?
>
> >
> > Finally, I don't know of any screensavers that would let you use a
> > "global password". Plus you would not want to do that anyway!
>
> But, the all support pam, and pam can be convinced to always succeed ...
>
> You could also find the configuration which disables the screensaver, add it
> to the home directory template (/etc/skel), enable it via a login script
> (e.g. /etc/X11/xinit.d/) or add the configuration entry to all your user
> accounts.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
>