screen saver not working

[tman7510]

both kscreensaver and xscreensaver don't work by default. I have to run xscreensaver-demo or go to control center for kscreensaver and setup everytime. Also it doesnt work if I have compiz as the window manger. I have to use metacity as the window manager otherwise lock screen just places a black rectangle in the lower right of my monitor and no screensaver

[DontPanic]

I just recently ran across the answer for this here: BASH invocation on Sab. . .

In short, the xdm/kdm default login scheme used in Sabayon doesn't look at the .xinitrc or .xsession files in a user's directory. But if you edit and/or create a .xprofile file in the users home directory, and insert:

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/usr/bin/xscreensaver &

...then you should have xscreensaver starting by default.