Trusty screensaver in Flashback

[Cavsfan]

I'm surprised that there are not more people wanting to login to Gnome Flashback and have a working screensaver. You cannot unistall gnome-screensaver because it is a dependency for gnome-session-flashback.
This was the common practice after the initial install of other Ubuntu versions: uninstall gnome-screensaver, install xscreensaver and add it to your startup applications.

This problem was introduced with Saucy and persists in Trusty.

If you want a working screensaver in flashback add your name to this bug.

Here is what you need in Trusty:
1) Add this to a text file:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 180
killall gnome-screensaver 

2) Then save it in your home directory as /home/cavsfan/killscreensaver.sh (of course substituting your username with cavsfan).
3) Enter sudo chmod +x /home/cavsfan/killscreensaver.sh to make it executable.
4) Enter sudo chown root:root /home/cavsfan/killscreensaver.sh to make it owned by root.
5) Add /home/cavsfan/killscreensaver.sh to your startup programs.

6) Add this to another text file:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 240
xscreensaver -no-splash 

7) Then save it in your home directory as /home/cavsfan/xscreensaver-start.sh (of course substituting your username with cavsfan).
* this script must not be owned by root or the screensaver will not start.
8) Add /home/cavsfan/xscreensaver-start.sh to your startup programs.
9) Make gnome-screensaver unexecutable with this command sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver just to make double sure.

I've tried many combinations and many did not work but the above appears to work OK.
I even entered sudo killall gnome-screensaver in terminal and it killed it but it re-spawned back to life somehow.
It is set to kill gnome-screensaver after 3 minutes because it doesn't start for a while and anything less will not work.
Then it starts xscreensaver after 4 minutes and it cannot be started before gnome-screensaver is killed or it will not start.
I logged out and back in and this worked. Haven't tried rebooting but, that should do.

[Cavsfan]

Received an email this morning that this dependency will be fixed and will be in the next upload.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...l/+bug/1199074

[Cavsfan]

Now I noticed that the email was about Saucy. Have to wait and see if it gets to Trusty but I imagine it will.

[kansasnoob]

I subscribed, me too'ed, and added the trusty tag along with a comment.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...074/comments/7

[Hazzabin]

There probably would be more people trying, if they are like me I still have NOT been successful in getting 'Flashback' with or without whatever

[kansasnoob]

There probably would be more people trying, if they are like me I still have NOT been successful in getting 'Flashback' with or without whatever

But you're talking about Flashback w/compiz:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...2#post12887102

It's been discussed that we should drop "flashback" for compiz although no decision has been made.

What's needed by Edubuntu for it's LTSP installs is only flashback w/metacity

[Cavsfan]

I subscribed, me too'ed, and added the trusty tag along with a comment.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...074/comments/7

I got into Saucy and the update wasn't there. Guess maybe tomorrow. I had added that it affects Trusty already but didn't tag it so that is good.
I had also added my workaround. A script that killed gnome-screensaver which let Xscreensaver work. If gnome-screensaver was still running Xscreensaver could not work.
Xscreensaver is the only one I am aware of that is being kept up to date and is also in the regular repositories. I'm happy with it as there are many choices.
I have mine set to Piecewise which I like.

There probably would be more people trying, if they are like me I still have NOT been successful in getting 'Flashback' with or without whatever

I have only been in Lunity long enough to install the necessary components gnome-session-flashback needs and then I got into Flashback.
Only after I heard Kansasnoob mention flashback with compiz and flashback with metacity did I notice they had changed.

I only use flashback with compiz and it's been running smooth as silk for a long time now.

I am working from an ISO that was created a while back.

cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$ ls -ld /var/log/installer | awk '{ print $6 " " $7 " " $8 }'
Nov 24 10:51

About the only thing that works in the indicator-applet-complete (the top right button on the top panel) is suspend, but it works very well.
I have Cairo Dock running along with the cube and the whole nine yards. Even got Emerald window decorator installed.

Have to use Cairo Dock to logout, restart, etc. but I don't mind. It's just like Saucy was/is.

[PJs Ronin]

There probably would be more people trying, if they are like me I still have NOT been successful in getting 'Flashback' with or without whatever

I can 'me too' this comment. I can't get Gnome Flashback working with either compiz or metacity so the discussion about screensavers is, for me, moot. I do have Gnome Shell working so I may fiddle with the screensaver in that and see how I go.

[kansasnoob]

I got into Saucy and the update wasn't there. Guess maybe tomorrow. I had added that it affects Trusty already but didn't tag it so that is good.
I had also added my workaround. A script that killed gnome-screensaver which let Xscreensaver work. If gnome-screensaver was still running Xscreensaver could not work.
Xscreensaver is the only one I am aware of that is being kept up to date and is also in the regular repositories. I'm happy with it as there are many choices.
I have mine set to Piecewise which I like.


I have only been in Lunity long enough to install the necessary components gnome-session-flashback needs and then I got into Flashback.
Only after I heard Kansasnoob mention flashback with compiz and flashback with metacity did I notice they had changed.

I only use flashback with compiz and it's been running smooth as silk for a long time now.

I am working from an ISO that was created a while back.

cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$ ls -ld /var/log/installer | awk '{ print $6 " " $7 " " $8 }'
Nov 24 10:51

About the only thing that works in the indicator-applet-complete (the top right button on the top panel) is suspend, but it works very well.
I have Cairo Dock running along with the cube and the whole nine yards. Even got Emerald window decorator installed.

Have to use Cairo Dock to logout, restart, etc. but I don't mind. It's just like Saucy was/is.

You really shouldn't expect anyone to take you serious using blurbs like highlighted above.

Of course you won't see the upcoming change until it's marked "fix released"!

Patience is a virtue

[kansasnoob]

I can 'me too' this comment. I can't get Gnome Flashback working with either compiz or metacity so the discussion about screensavers is, for me, moot. I do have Gnome Shell working so I may fiddle with the screensaver in that and see how I go.

I've had very little trouble with Flashback w/Metacity so you must be doing something wrong.