XScreenSaver(1)

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version 6.09 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie

💖 XSCREENSAVER — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay so. you found XScreenSaver(1), the manual page, and honestly? iconic of you. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it. this is your girl's guide to the screen saver + screen locking framework that's been running on every Unix box since forever.

✨ NAME ✨

xscreensaver — extensible screen saver and screen locking framework

like. that's the whole vibe. it saves your screen, it locks your screen, and you can bolt more stuff onto it. extensible, bestie. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xscreensaver-auth [--display host:display.screen] [--version]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. short and sweet, lowkey elegant 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the tea, and it's a little unhinged: the xscreensaver(1) daemon launches xscreensaver-auth to prompt the user for their password. 🫶

and now the part where I have to yell at you gently:

do NOT run this program directly. ✋😭

fr fr. this is not a "run it and see what happens" situation. the daemon spawns it, the daemon handles it, you stay in your lane. running it yourself is not the serve you think it is. no cap.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read your sisters, besties, they're all part of the same family:

Copyright © 2021-2022 by Jamie Zawinski.

okay legal moment, but make it fashion ✨ so: permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation — for any purpose — and the fee for all of that is... zero. nothing. free. 💸 provided that the copyright notice above appears in all copies, and that both this copyright notice and this permission notice appear in the supporting documentation.

no representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. it is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. so like, if it eats your homework, that's on you, bestie. 💀

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> — the main character of this whole ecosystem, we love him, we thank him 🫶

and that's the page!! 🌸 this was X Version 11, drop 6.09, dated 07-Jun-2024 — so if you're reading this later and things look different, that's why. stay hydrated, don't run the auth program by hand, and go lock your screen. mwah 💅✨🎀

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