5.4. Screen Style Manager (Xscreensaver)
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### 5.4. Screen Style Manager (Xscreensaver)

Well known X screen saver is a perfect drop in as Screen Style Manager for NsCDE. It is more extended, fancier and more capable than original CDE screensaver. Xscreensaver has it's own configuration in `~/.xscreensaver`. If this file does not exist during initial setup of the NsCDE, and if xscreensaver(1) is installed on the system, a default NsCDE version of the `~/.xscreensaver` will be installed in user's home directory. Xscreensaver probably does not have much sense in virtual machines, but on notebooks and workstations it is almost mandatory as a locking mechanism with surplus value of nice animations.

Xscreensaver's GUI configuration program xscreensaver-demo(1) can be called from the NsCDE Style Manager main window. It allows user to tune various acpects of the program's behaviour such as:

Figure 28. Screen Style Manager (Xscreensaver setup)

- Xscreensaver damon management

- Locking or just blanking

- Which screensaver animations (hacks) are enabled

- Mode of operation (One animation only, random, blank screen only)

- Cycling in random mode and blanking timers

- Weather images of the desktop may be grabbed by certain animations (security concern)

- Path to directory with photos which may be used in animations.

- Text sources for manipulation by certail animations

- Power management: this parameters are also set by the Power Style Manager

- Fade in and fade out of the animations when screen is unlocked.

X screen saver may be started with Meta+Alt+L or with the lock icon upper left from the Workspace Manager on the Front Panel. Screen may also be locked from the Workspace Menu with the option Lock Screen. For all this to work, usage of the xscreensaver must be enabled in the `$HOME/.NsCDE/NsCDe.conf` - `nscde_use_xscreensaver` must be set to 1.

Figure 29. Lock icon is in the upper left corner near the Workspace Manager on the Front Panel

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