[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Screen saver for graphical login?

[Kyle Davenport]

yeah , sorry.  I guess the "new and improved" gnome2 did us in.   I tried
it too and I see BackgroundProgram is not even run!  My hack was to replace
/usr/bin/gdmgreeter with a link to /usr/local/bin/screensaver, where you
can finally do what you want as user gdm.  Mine looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/X11/xscreensaver -nosplash &
/usr/bin/gdmgreeter-bin


I mv'd /usr/bin/gdmgreeter to /usr/bin/gdmgreeter-bin and cp'd
~/.xscreensaver to ~gdm.  I noticed xscreensaver runs until I login, then
dies, but I guess that's ok since x-windows restarts on log out.