#Xscreensaver command how to#
#Xscreensaver command movie#
#Xscreensaver command code#

Now press “F12” key in you keyboard, xscreensaver application should lock your screen.

Mohamed 3857 3796 0 18:19 pts/4 00:00:00 grep -color=auto xscreensaverįrom the above we can see the xscreensaver is running as intended. The output of this program will be repeatedely displayed, with new pages of text shifting in every few seconds. Mohamed 2984 1 0 17:06 ? 00:00:00 xscreensaver -no-splash program command The given program is run, and its output is displayed. Open a command and use the below command to make suer the xscreensaver application is started by awesome. I our case it should start the screen saver and lock the screen.Īt the end of rc.lua file add the following lines to start the xscreensaver application, here -no-splash switch says not to show splash screen when starting xscreensaver.Ī_with_shell('xscreensaver -no-splash')

#Xscreensaver command code#

In the above code “F12” is our short cut key, and “xscreensaver-command -lock” is the command to be executed when the key is pressed. The steps for other tools should be almost same with very few small modification.Īdd the following lines In your rc.lua file under “Standard program” section.Īwful.key(, 'F12', function () ('xscreensaver-command -lock') end),

#Xscreensaver command how to#

In this article I will demonstrate how to use xscreensaver with awesome to lock your screen. It can be achieved with any one of the following standalone apps and small modification to rc.lua. Screensaver in awesome window manager ?īy default awesome window manager doesn’t provide any inbuilt support for locking the screen or screen saver. Screen lock in awesome window manager ?Ģ. I found out that clicking for long enough on the top of where the taskbar is, will show it and let you escape chromium.This post gives you answer for 2 questions.ġ. One more edit note, if you're using kiosk mode with chromium you might want to disable this two lines in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart -profile -desktop -profile LXDE-pi One more thing that can be useful and easily added is to have it play a video file at random from a folder on each screensaver start. The CPU usage is staying very low (about 3% per core while playing), compared to mplayer, it's a day and night difference. I have been testing it now for 4 hours and my Pi is happily staying at <60☌ with no cooling, whilst playing loop trailers. I'm using Raspbian from NOOBS so I edited this file: vi ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostartīy adding this line to the end: whole autostart file for my kiosk looks like this: -profile -desktop -profile s s -i 's/'exited_cleanly': false/'exited_cleanly': true/' ~/.config/chromium -noerrdialogs -kiosk -kiosk-printing -incognito unbelievably great on my Pi 3, the script is not taxing the CPU at all.

This little script/daemon utilises xscreensaver-command -watch and looks for a change of state. usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -watch | process

#Xscreensaver command movie#

UNBLANK*) killall omxplayer.bin # This will kill the omxplayer processīLANK*) omxplayer -loop -no-osd -no-keys /home/pi/Desktop/Video/Guardians.mp4 & # Don't forget the & on the end or it will never stops, just add your movie file path Set xscreensaver to blank and set the 'Blank After' to time you want the screensaver to kick in.Ĭreate a small script and stuff it somewhere, /etc/ is as good a place as any touch /etc/video_screensaver.shĮdit the file and add the following #!/bin/bash Ok so there is virtually no info about how to successfully pair xscreensaver and omxplayer, so I took it as a challenge and came up with a workaround, that actually works.