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What is the command to lock the X screen without blanking the display?
Years ago (decades?), I used a command that turned the mouse into a padlock icon and prevented clicking or typing, but you could still see the programs that were running. You could blindly type your ...
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Change the screensaver every few minutes
Is it possible to change the screensaver randomly every, say, 5 minutes?
I mean that once the screensaver starts, it picks one at random, and after a few minutes, change the screensaver to another ...
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How to use Gnome Lockscreen instead of xscreensaver Lockscreen
I am using Xscreensaver in my Fedora 28. I was using it only because Apple Aerial Screensaver can be added as a screensaver to it.
But the login screen of xscreensaver is ugly and doesnt go with the ...
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How to disable screen off in Debian?
My screen are darkening every 20 or some minutes. It was originally xscreensaver installed, but nothing changed after I removed it. This behavior very annoying when I am trying to see some movie.
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Debian XFCE screen locking and session logout
I am using Debian 9, kernel 4.9.0-1 and xfce 4.12.3 and I have a problem that after I lock the screen and close the lid of my laptop and later open the lid I will be prompted with the session login (...
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How do I safely kill xscreensaver from a script/the command line?
I'm using a Linux (RHEL6) workstation. I have a small script I wrote which locks and unlocks the screen via xscreensaver when I connect or disconnect my USB thumb drive, which effectively turns it ...
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How to make xscreensaver turn off the backlight only when explicitly locked
Is it possible to set up XScreensaver so that it would turn the LCD backlight off only when I lock the screen by hand?
I thought it must be controlled by the "Quick Power-off in Blank Only Mode", but ...
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Removing default OS X screensavers from random rotation
I have a pack of screensavers (XScreenSaver) that I would use in Ubuntu, with a certain number of them selected at random when a screensaver is needed. I have this same pack, now, for OS X Snow ...
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How to disable gnome "Blank screen"
I am using SUSE Linux with gnome-2. My screensaver runs for 5 minutes and the screen goes blank after that. I want to disable the "Blank screen".
I tried the following commands:
$ setterm -blank 0
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Mplayer doesn't prevent screensaver in Ubuntu
I'm trying to watch a movie using mplayer, and despite putting stop-xscreensaver=yes in my /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file, and also starting mplayer using the -stop-xscreensaver, I still have to sit ...
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