You can now choose from a list of screen savers to run, whenever your Ubuntu screen is idle for a time specified by you. That was all you needed to know about installing the Xscreensaver app. You can verify this by running the following command: $ gnome-screensaver You do not need to add Gnome Screensaver to your system startup, as the application is designed to run automatically at all times. Click on the link to open the Screen Saver. There is a link to Screen saver settings at the very bottom. Remove Xscreensaver app from your startup applications. From the lock screen page, scroll down to the bottom. Cosmos Clocks screen blanking functions can be adjusted through.
Install the Gnome Screensaver utility via the following command: $ sudo apt-get install gnome-screensaverģ. Cosmos Clock is a screensaver that animates a green/black radar seeker like in sci-fi movies. Remove the Xscreensaver utility and the relevant packages that you added when installing Xscreensaver, via the following command in your Terminal: $ sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extraĢ. If for some reason you want to remove the Xscreensaver utility and return to the default Gnome Screensaver application, follow these steps:ġ. A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been. If you explore the utility a bit more, you'll learn that there are many other settings you can make to your screen saver's behavior through Xcreensaver.
You can also set the idle time after which the screensaver will run through the 'Blank After' option. On Mac desktops like iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro, you can try the Lock Screen keyboard shortcut (Control + Command + Q) or the Log Out Shortcut (Command + Shift + Q), but both of those don’t always work and you may have to turn the Mac off and back on again. Via the Mode dropdown menu, you can even configure the utility to set only one screensaver and select that screensaver from the list you can see under “Mode”. It will also change screen savers randomly, every 10 minutes. By default, this screen saver utility will run random screen savers on your system when the screen is idle for 10 minutes. The app will open in the following view when you first open it:Ĭlick OK if you get a dialog like the one shown above to run Xscreensaver on your current screen. In that pane, click on the Screensaver button and youll. Or, via the following Terminal command: $ xscreensaver It installs into System Preferences and becomes part of the Desktop & Screensaver pane. To set a screensaver through the Xscreensaver utility, open the app through the Application Launcher search as follows: The display screen on the printer no longer goes into blank/screen saver mode.
Every time you start the system, this startup program will start running the Xscreensaver utility so that your screensaver activates the way you configured it. The nosplash flag would mean that the app would run without the UI being displayedĬomment:start the screensaver app on startup (or any other relevant comments)