Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add xscreenserver.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Leo Famulari writes:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 07:52:25AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Leo Famulari writes:
>> 
>> > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 08:52:12PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> >> Leo Famulari writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > Did you try something like this?
>> >> >
>> >> > (arguments
>> >> >  `(#:make-flags (string-append "install_prefix= (assoc-ref %outputs 
>> >> > "out"))))
>> >> 
>> >> This didn't fix it, but it die send me along the right path.  Working
>> >> xscreensaver attached!
>> >
>> > Awesome! Looking forward to trying this out soon!
>> 
>> Just to be clear, was that also an "awesome, looks good to push"? :)
>
> If it's working for you, then okay!

Great, pushed!

> By the way, how did you enable it and how do you invoke it? I added it
> to my system's services as you described but the daemon isn't running. I
> also tried to add a line for it in 'gnu/services/desktop.scm' along with
> slock and xlockmore.

Adding to the system services just makes it so that you can unlock the
screen... otherwise you won't be able to unlock it!

So to start it, have your window manager launch it as one of its initial
programs.  Running "xscreensaver" is sufficient to start the daemon.

You can run "xscreensaver-demo" to pull up an interface to test things
out.

Happy locking!
 - Chris