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