How do I set Xscreensaver to autostart?

Question

I've just installed xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu 12.04 in gnome-session-fallback (Gnome Classic) mode. It works fine, but I have a problem: I put "xscreensaver -no-splash" command to the startup applications list.

But it doesn't start automatically, I have to run this command manually. I think that the problem is that it tries to start before I log in. So how can I start it automatically after login?

Answer 1

One possible way is to introduce a short delay of (for example) 10 seconds before running the command. This should allow all the logon processes to complete before running the xscreensaver command.

Use a startup application command line of:

sh -c "sleep 10 && xscreensaver -no-splash &"