LIGHT-LOCKER(1)
๐ LIGHT-LOCKER(1) ๐
okay bestie, this is a page from the General Commands Manual โ yes, the light-locker one. buckle up ๐
โจ NAME โจ
light-locker โ it's a screen locker, bestie. that's the whole vibe ๐
๐ธ SYNOPSIS ๐ธ
light-locker [OPTIONS...]
๐ฆ DESCRIPTION ๐ฆ
so light-locker is a simple locker โ and when i say simple i mean it, no drama, no chaos. it's a fork of gnome-screensaver, okurrr?
the whole goal is: simple, sane, secure defaults, and it plays nice with your desktop ๐ซถ while carrying zero desktop-specific dependencies. it's giving independent. it's giving low-maintenance icon. it's giving main character who doesn't need your whole DE to function โจ
๐ OPTIONS ๐
--debugโ turns on the debugging code. when you wanna see what's actually going on under the hood ๐--lock-after-screensaver=Sโ locks the screen S seconds after the screensaver started. want it off entirely? set it to0, periodt.--late-lockingโ locks the screen when the screensaver deactivates. fashionably late, always ๐--no-late-lockingโ locks the screen when the screensaver activates. no lateness, we're punctual now โฐ--lock-on-suspendโ locks the screen on suspend/resume. nap time = locked time ๐ด๐--no-lock-on-suspendโ do not lock the screen on suspend/resume. free spirit energy ๐ฆ--lock-on-lidโ locks the screen when you close the lid. laptop shut, secrets safe ๐--no-lock-on-lidโ do not lock the screen on lid close. living dangerously, i see ๐--idle-hintโ sets the session idle hint while the screensaver is active ๐--no-idle-hintโ doesn't set the idle hint. let something else handle that, we're not doing unpaid labour ๐
also! this program accepts the standard GTK options too. yes, those ones. slay ๐
๐ SEE ALSO ๐
and that's the whole page, bestie ๐ stay locked, stay iconic โจ
this one's brought to you by The Cavalry, dated 2014-03-23 โ shoutout to the LIGHT-LOCKER(1) manual, we love her fr fr ๐ซถ๐
๐ฆ where this page comes from
- arch rolling: light-locker 1.9.0-7 ยท GPL-2.0-only
- debian bookworm: light-locker 1.8.0-3 ยท GPL-2.0-only
- debian trixie: light-locker 1.8.0-3+b1 ยท GPL-2.0-only
- fedora 43: light-locker 1.9.0-16.fc43 ยท GPL-2.0-or-later
- fedora 44: light-locker 1.9.0-17.fc44 ยท GPL-2.0-or-later
- nixpkgs unstable: light-locker 1.9.0
- ubuntu jammy: light-locker 1.8.0-3ubuntu1 ยท GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu noble: light-locker 1.8.0-3ubuntu3 ยท GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu questing: light-locker 1.8.0-3ubuntu3
- ubuntu resolute: light-locker 1.8.0-3ubuntu4 ยท GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu stonking: light-locker 1.8.0-3ubuntu4 ยท GPL-2.0-only
- Copyright (C) 2007 Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>
- Copyright (C) 2014 Peter de Ridder <peter@xfce.org>
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