Arch Linux

Since the intended behaviour for xscreensaver is to launch automatically in the background at startup, I was wondering what is the best way to do that.

The wiki recommends several methods: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XScreenSaver#Starting_XScreenSaver

But they don't seem the best to me: the first asks to create a ~/.xinitrc file, which I don't have in my setup (using GNOME 3.16). Another one recommends to use gnome-screensaver, which is deprecated (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2014-October/msg00088.html), and which the xscreensaver manual strongly advices against (http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html#8).

I've looked into the Startup Applications option in gnome-tweak-tool, but it only allows me to pick up apps which come with a launcher. I've finally found out that you have to create a launcher file in the ~/.config/autostart folder to make xscreesaver run at startup, as intended.

I've attached my xscreensaver.desktop file, which may not be correctly written. I can confirm that putting this in the ~/.config/autostart makes xscreensaver works automatically on my GNOME setup (that may work for KDE desktops too). Would you please consider adding such a file to the xscreensaver package?