Bug#753793: mate: the xscreensaver demon is not started automatically

[Andrei POPESCU]

Control: reassign -1 mate-desktop-environment

On Sb, 05 iul 14, 06:50:48, Markus Trümper wrote:
> Package: mate
> Version: MATE Desktop Environment 1.8.1 / xscreensaver 5.26
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> I wanted to try out the Mate desktop environment and have used xfce and lxde up
> to that point.
> After installing MATE Core via Synaptic I found that the screensaver didn't
> start automatically anymore.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> I used System / Preferences / Screensaver (Mate menu) to reconfigure the
> screensaver. It warned that the  XScreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to be running
> on display ":0.0" and offered to start it, which I did. It did not configure
> the demon to start automatically at the next login, though.
> I then added /usr/bin/xscreensaver to the list of autostart applications in
> System / Control Center / Startup Applications.
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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