electricsheep screensaver won't start
Solution 1:
I found a whole lot of posts talking about this kind of problem: it doesn't seems to be related to electrisheep but to gnome-screensaver itself.
I tried with some stock screensavers experiencing the same behaviour: I then installed XScreenSaver and it works like a charm (googling for how to use electricsheep with XScreenSaver it wasn't that hard...)
How-to:
- open a terminal and
sudo aptitude install xscreensaver electricsheep
- open "startup applications", click "add" and put as a command
xscreensaver -nosplash
- open ~/.xscreensaver (
gedit ~/.xscreensaver
): at the bottom of the screensaver's list you'll have to addGL: electricsheep --root 1 \n\
, otherwise you'll not be able to see it in xscreensaver - in a terminal or via ALT+F2 write
xscreensaver-demo
to set it up: you can also manage your power saving settings - log out and log back in (or reboot)