Warren Togami wrote: > > This has NEVER worked for root. It has something to do with > xscreensaver not being very secure. By which you meant, of course, "xscreensaver is behaving securely by refusing to allow you to do something that is inherently insecure." > In any case you shouldn't be logging in as root anyway. You should > use su or sudo when you need root functions. Yes. Paul Ionescu wrote: > > Well, I know that, but it works fine in KDE. Then feel free to use KDE. Just because they made a bad decision does not mean that xscreensaver will ape it. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz@xxxxxxx http://www.jwz.org/ jwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dnalounge.com/