xscreensaver question

krock923 · 11-10-2005, 12:13 PM

I like to turn off my monitor off at night, before i go to bed. Is it possible to manually activate the screensaver without locking the screen? I can instantly activate it if i go to lock screen but if i just want the screensaver to go on, i have to wait the five minutes for the screensaver to activate. So, the bottom line is, is it possible to instantly activate the screensaver, via a command or something similar?

geeman2.0 · 11-10-2005, 12:22 PM

I believe that simply typing xscreensaver at the terminal prompt will start it up.

Walman · 11-10-2005, 12:58 PM

Krock , Geeman is right , all you have to do is to type xscreensaver & .
Apaert from that you can set the screen saver to start after any minutes of inactivity , from one to hours by simply going into the screen saver configurator and setting it .

Good luck

krock923 · 11-10-2005, 11:32 PM

when i type xscreensaver, all i get is a message that it is already running.

homey · 11-11-2005, 12:06 AM

You can get a list of commands from: xscreensaver -help or http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

For example:
I can start or stop it with the gui tool: xscreensaver -demo
I could activate it with the command: xscreensaver-command -activate
I could restart it with the command: xscreensaver-command -restart