Screensaver issue

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 5:39 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 02:21, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The first issue was that the xfce4-screensaver kept coming back and
> > taking over.  I went to Session and Startup settings to take it out,
> > and it came back again uninvited.  I've taken the second one out and
> > now it seems to be more benevolent - it's not coming back again
> > anymore
>
> I've seen similar. Just uninstall it completely.
>
I did that after I rebooted using Colin's suggestion.  After the
reboot, xfce4-screensaver came back up, so I uninstalled it (purged
it).  Now it's gone, hopefully for good.

> > I looked this up in Google, but the answers are greek to me and I
> > don't see the connection to xscreensaver.  I did try xset fp rehash,
> > but that doesn't solve the issue.
>
> Tried installing the optional extras?
>
> sudo apt install xubuntu-restricted-extras
>
$ sudo apt install xubuntu-restricted-extras
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package xubuntu-restricted-extras

> sudo apt-install-xscreensaver*
>
[Replaced the dashes with spaces:]
$ sudo apt install xscreensaver*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package xscreensaver*

Which is odd because I installed it with apt...

$ apt-cache pkgnames | $grep $COLOR xscreensaver 2> /dev/null
xscreensaver-gl
xscreensaver-data
xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
xscreensaver-data-extra
xscreensaver-screensaver-dizzy
libopengl-xscreensaver-perl
xscreensaver
xscreensaver-screensaver-webcollage
xscreensaver-gl-extra

That said, it's up, no errors (I installed xfonts-75dpi and
xfonts-100dpi and renamed "dina" to "helvetica" in ~/.Xdefaults as per
Colin's reference, then rebooted).

At least it all works now.  Thanks again.

Mark