LIGHT-LOCKER-COMMAND(1)

💖 LIGHT-LOCKER-COMMAND 💖

okay bestie, welcome to light-locker-command(1) — it lives in the General Commands Manual section and it's literally the remote control for your screen locker 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

light-locker-command — controls light-locker 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

light-locker-command [OPTION...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, light-locker-command is a lil tool for controlling an instance of light-locker that's already running, okay? 🫶

the way it does this is through LightDM, and ngl — LightDM does not guarantee that light-locker is actually running. it's giving "i'll pass the message along, no promises tho" 💀 so keep that in mind fr fr.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -q, --query — asks the locker "hey girl, what's your state rn?" 🔍
• -t, --time — asks how long the locker has been active for ⏱️
• -l, --lock — tells the running locker process to lock the screen immediately, no waiting, periodt 🔒
• -a, --activate — turns the screensaver on (aka blanks the screen) 🌙
• -d, --deactivate — if the screensaver is active, this deactivates it (aka un-blanks the screen, welcome back bestie) ☀️
• -p, --poke — pokes the running locker to simulate user activity 👉✨ (yes, it's literally called poke, iconic)
• -i, --inhibit — inhibits the screensaver from activating. to end the inhibition, you terminate the light-locker-command process 🛑
• -n, --application-name — the calling application that is inhibiting the screensaver 📛
• -r, --reason — the reason for inhibiting the screensaver 📝
• -V, --version — version of this application 🔖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• light-locker(1)

💜 reminder bestie: this only talks to an already running locker, through LightDM, and LightDM isn't out here making any promises that light-locker is up. so if nothing happens… that might be why 😭

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