gnome-screensaver(1)

✨ NAME ✨

gnome-screensaver — your screen saver and your locker, bestie 💖 (it's the manual page for the gnome-screensaver command, if that wasn't obvious, which honestly? slay)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gnome-screensaver [OPTIONS...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. GNOME Screensaver is literally the default screen saver and locker in a GNOME desktop. it's the one that comes up when you walk away and your screen goes all dim and dreamy 🫶

and the whole design philosophy? simplicity and security. that's it. that's the vibe. it was built with those two things in mind and it's serving exactly that. no notes 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --no-daemon — don't become a daemon. it just… doesn't detach and go live in the background. stays right where you can see it 🙈
• --debug — turns on the debugging code 🔥 (yes the debugging code is a real thing that exists, and yes this turns it on)

bestie heads up: this program also accepts the standard GTK options. those live somewhere else, so go look at gtk-options(7) down in SEE ALSO ⭐

👑 AUTHORS 👑

gnome-screensaver is written by William Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu>. iconic behavior fr fr 💜

This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>. also iconic 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

gtk-options(7)

and that's the whole page, angel — go forth and lock your screen 💖

this came to you courtesy of GNOME, dated 2007-09-27, living in section 1 of your manual pages. mwah 🫶✨