I figured out and someone told me that you have to use the argument '-scr' or '/s' for most screensavers to start in screensaver mode. e.g.: wine xyz.scr -scr I added that to the Wine Wiki screensaver article. http://wiki.winehq.org/ScreenSavers _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users