XScreenSaver

[jon787]

How do I get XScreenSaver to start on startup like apache and all those other things do?

I'm running Debian Woody. (If this is testing I have got to try the unstable version!)

[The Anti-Void]

If you are using kde, you could add a link to xscreenaver in your autostart directory. If you don't use kde but have an .xinitrc file that you use to load your windowmanager, you could add 'xscreensaver &' before the line to start the wm.

I know this isn't probably what you had in mind (as you sounded like you wanted it to load at boot time like a service?), but I don't know of any way to load the xscreensaver daemon outside of X, since it'll complain about not being able to connect to the X server if X isn't running.

[slacker_x]

debian uses .xsession instead of .xinitrc.