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[Yaohan Chen <yaohan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Mario and Cody: installing xscreensaver should configure
itself to autostart.

It seems that if a user uses KDE screensaver, it is useless to have the
xscreensaver package installed. KDE can display xscreensaver "hacks"
too, with the help of kscreensaver-xsavers* packages, but this only
requires xscreensaver-{data,gl}{,-extra}, not xscreensaver. So for these
users, simply removing xscreensaver would solve the problem.

KDE users who have KDE screensaver disabled and want to use xscreensaver
just need to install xscreensaver, if the package sets up the daemon to
autostart.

Although removing or installing packages can take more time than
deleting or copying a desktop file, the former approach seems more
elegant to me.

The only missing "feature" would be the ability to keep xscreensaver
installed but not autostarted. I think this would be less commonly
needed (if kubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-desktop do not automatically
install xscreensaver), and the user can still manually delete the
desktop file to accomplish this. Or there could be a config file in
/etc/defaults for whether xscreensaver is actually autostarted...

Currently XFCE might be "hard coded" to start xscreensaver, but that
doesn't seem to be a good solution either.

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xscreensaver activated on kubuntu after upgrade to lucid
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