Xscreensaver

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The xscreensaver-demo command doesn't give me a GUI as suggested, I get errors instead. Apparently the timer for how long to wait for screensaver activation is on that GUI, or so I've read. I tried running the demo command under root, it didn't like that. The GTK module shows to be installed.

Errors:
screensaver-demo: 20:08:58: Gtk-message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

(xscreensaver-demo:32259): libglade-WARNING **: 20:08:58.733: Could not load support for `gnome': libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(base) andy@Tradedesk:~$ xscreensaver-demo
xscreensaver-demo: 20:12:07: Gtk-message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

(xscreensaver-demo:32353): libglade-WARNING **: 20:12:07.533: Could not load support for `gnome': libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Try sudo apt —reinstall install xscreensaver

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In addition to @carmar 's suggestion:

sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module

Combine it all into one command, if you want

sudo apt install --reinstall libcanberra-gtk-module xscreensaver

libgnome.so with xscreensaver has been deprecated, so this warning can be safely ignored.

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