Unblanking (because the user became active, and typed the correct Hacks, then locking (perhaps because the lock-timeout went off) then The above shows the screensaver activating, running three different Never returns it is intended for use by shell scripts that want to react to Prints a line each time the screensaver changes state: when the screenД«lanks, locks, unblanks, or when the running hack is changed. Not quite, since it only tells you when the screen became blanked or Prints the time at which the screensaver last activated orДeactivated (roughly, how long the user has been idle or non-idle: but Things in an inconsistent state, and you may need to restart your windowД¬auses the screensaver process to exit and then restart with the same command If you are using a virtual root window manager, that can leave Never use kill -9 with xscreensaver while the screensaver isДЄctive. This does nothing if the display is currently locked. Just after your laptop's lid is closed, and just before the CPU halts,Д¬auses the xscreensaver process to exit gracefully. Powers off the screen without fading out. Like -activate, but ignores lockTimeout and immediately Note that locking doesn't work unless the xscreensaver process is Is not the default (that is, even if xscreensaver's lock resource isДЇalse, and even if the lockTimeout resource is non-zero.) This is like -activate, but forces locking as well, even if locking Tells the running xscreensaver process to lock the screen immediately.

(The firstД®lement in the list is numbered 1, not 0.) This to activate the screensaver with a particular graphics demo. Like -activate, but runs the Nth element in the list of hacks.Д«y knowing what is in the programs list, and in what order, you can use This is like -next, but cycles in the other direction. Probably an easier way to accomplish that.) Repeatedly executing -next will cause the xscreensaver process to invoke each Next one in the list, instead of a randomly-chosen one. Is more appropriate, except that the graphics hack that will be run is the This is like either -activate or -cycle, depending on which Graphics demo and run a new one (chosen randomly.) If the screensaver is active (the screen is blanked), then stop the current The -deactivate command periodically is one way to prevent This simulated user activity will re-start the countdown (so, issuing If the screen is locked, then the passwordДialog will pop up first, as usual. Then this command will cause the screen to un-blank as if there had been This means that if the screensaver is active (the screen is blanked), This tells xscreensaver to pretend that there has just been user activity. (Because if you jiggle the mouse, xscreensaver To be sure that you have time to take your hand off the mouse before It is useful to run this from a menu you may wish to run it as Soon as there is any user activity, as usual. The user had been idle for long enough.) The screensaver will deactivate as Tell xscreensaver to turn on immediately (that is, blank the screen, as if Prints a brief summary of command-line options. The xscreensaver-command program controls a runningДЄccepts the following command-line options: Xscreensaver-command - control a running xscreensaver process

Xscreensaver suspend lock