Hi guys,

I am trying to run xscreensaver (Bookworm, Odroid-XU4) but I am getting  this error:

 

odroid ) xscreensaver --verbose
	XScreenSaver 6.06, released Dec 2022 -- 6 months ago
	Copyright © 1991-2022 by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>

xscreensaver: 12:34:29: running in process 12038
xscreensaver: 12:34:29: XInput extension missing

 

I am trying to make xscreensaver working, it used to work with Buster, however if I did something specific I totally forgot about it, however comparing the older packages with the newer ones looks are matching...

 

Old packages:

libinput-bin					install
libinput10:armhf				install
libxcb-xinput0:armhf				install
libx11-xcb-dev:armhf				install
libx11-xcb1:armhf				install
libxcb-dri2-0:armhf				install
libxcb-dri3-0:armhf				install
libxcb-glx0:armhf				install
libxcb-icccm4:armhf				install
libxcb-image0:armhf				install
libxcb-keysyms1:armhf				install
libxcb-present0:armhf				install
libxcb-randr0:armhf				install
libxcb-render-util0:armhf			install
libxcb-render0:armhf				install
libxcb-render0-dev:armhf			install
libxcb-shape0:armhf				install
libxcb-shm0:armhf				install
libxcb-shm0-dev:armhf				install
libxcb-sync1:armhf				install
libxcb-util1:armhf				install
libxcb-xfixes0:armhf				install
libxcb-xinerama0:armhf				install
libxcb-xinput0:armhf				install
libxcb-xkb1:armhf				install
libxcb1:armhf					install
libxcb1-dev:armhf				install

 

Current packages:

libinput-bin					install
libinput10:armhf				install
libxcb-xinput0:armhf				install
libx11-xcb1:armhf				install
libxcb-dri2-0:armhf				install
libxcb-dri3-0:armhf				install
libxcb-glx0:armhf				install
libxcb-icccm4:armhf				install
libxcb-image0:armhf				install
libxcb-keysyms1:armhf				install
libxcb-present0:armhf				install
libxcb-randr0:armhf				install
libxcb-render-util0:armhf			install
libxcb-render0:armhf				install
libxcb-shape0:armhf				install
libxcb-shm0:armhf				install
libxcb-sync1:armhf				install
libxcb-util1:armhf				install
libxcb-xfixes0:armhf				install
libxcb-xinerama0:armhf				install
libxcb-xinput0:armhf				install
libxcb-xkb1:armhf				install
libxcb1:armhf					install
libxcb1-dev:armhf				install

 

I am trying to launch it through a VNC session, and I don't see in the settings any special flag associated with Xscreensaver:

 

cat .vnc/xstartup 
#!/bin/sh

xrdb "$HOME/.Xresources"
xsetroot -solid black
export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1
xscreensaver &
xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_R = Multi_key" &
/etc/X11/Xsession
wmaker

 

I tried to install other packages like libxcb-screensaver0, or xinput, but still doesn't work. I have not a clue on how to fix it... 😩

 

Thanks...

 

 

 

I am still trying to fix this, any help? 🙏

I resolved using slock from the suckless-tools in combination with xautolock.

 

https://tools.suckless.org/slock/