In 2012 some distros forked and renamed it as both In fact, in 2011 it lost the ability to run display modes at all. Program is insecure, bug-ridden, and missing many features of XScreenSaver. Wheel and ship their own replacement for the xscreensaver daemonĬalled gnome-screensaver(1) rather than improving XScreenSaver andĬontributing their changes back. In 2005, however, they decided to needlessly re-invent the INSTALLING XSCREENSAVER ON GNOME OR UNITY ¶įor many years, GNOME shipped XScreenSaver as-is, and everything With their own (buggy, insecure, inferior) screen-locking frameworks, it isĪlso necessary to disable those other frameworks before XScreenSaver can Long-running daemons like XScreenSaver, and since many of them come bundled Parts of KDE and GNOME may need to beĭisabled first for that to work see below.Įach desktop environment has its own system for launching Will prevent XScreenSaver from blanking the screen while video isīoth of these features require that xscreensaver-systemd(6)īe able connect to the systemd bus. Likewise, if you have systemd(1) 221 or newer, orĮlogind(8), then all of the popular video players and web browsers Xscreensaver-command -lock before closing the lid. Use systemd, you might want to get in the habit of doing If not, then the screen might not lock until a few secondsĪfter you re-open the lid. If your system has systemd(1) 221 or newer, orĮlogind(8), then closing the lid of your laptop will cause the screen Settings, XScreenSaver will override those changes. Note: if you use xset(1) to change the power management (though it may take a minute or two for XScreenSaver to notice). When the monitor is powered down, the display hacks are stopped Xscreensaver-settings(1) window, then that means that your X serverĭoes not support the XDPMS extension, and so control over the monitor's If the power management section is grayed out in the If and when your monitor should power off. The xscreensaver-settings(1) program is where you configure no-splash Don't display the splash screen at startup. logįilename Append all diagnostic output to the given file. Will manage all screens on the display simultaneously. For displays with multiple screens, XScreenSaver Host:display.screen The X display to use. Most of their time sleeping/idle by default, so they should not consume The display modes are run at a low process priority, and spend Unmapped, and the running subprocesses are killed. When the user becomes active again, the screensaver windows are The various graphics demos are, in fact, just standalone Of this, any program which can draw on a provided window can be used as a A sub-process is launched forĮach one running a graphics demo, pointed at the appropriate window. Window is created that covers each monitor. When it is time to activate the screensaver, a full-screen black YouĬonfigure it with the xscreensaver-settings(1) program. XScreenSaver is a daemon that runs in the background. XScreenSaver is also available on macOS, iOS and Android. It can also lock your screen, and providesĬonfiguration and control of display power management. XScreenSaver waits until the user is idle, and then runs graphicsĭemos chosen at random. Xscreensaver - extensible screen saver and screen locking
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