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== xss ==
xss uses the nearly 20-year-old MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension to launch a
program when the X server turns on the built-in screen saver.
xsswin makes a full-screen black window and runs some other program,
passing along the window ID in the environment ($XSS_WINDOW) and
possibly as an argument (XSS_WINDOW gets replaced with the id).
Examples
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Tell the X server to launch the screen saver after 90 seconds idle:
xset s 90
Run like xautolock:
xss xlock -mode qix &
Run like xscreensaver (no locking):
xss xsswin /usr/lib/xscreensaver/flurry -window-id XSS_WINDOW
Shell script to run an xscreensaver hack and xtrlock at the same time:
#! /bin/sh
xsswin /usr/lib/xscreensaver/qix -window-id XSS_WINDOW &
pid=$!
xtrlock
kill $pid
History
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AIX apparently had something also called `xss` which did almost exactly
what my xss does, but had some command-line options.
I'm not aware of anything else like `xsswin`.
I lifted some code from `beforelight` from the X11 distribution, and
from `slock` from [suckless.org](http://suckless.org/). Both have a
BSD/X11-like license.
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Neale Pickett <neale@woozle.org>