Daemon, Lock, and Command Line

Documentation / CySaver Screen Saver

• Overview of CySaver
  • What It Does
  • What It Is Not
• Using the Panel
  • The Saver Tab
  • The Timing Tab
  • Apply, Test, and Close
• Daemon, Lock, and Command Line
  • Session Daemon
  • Lock Hotkeys
  • Command Line
  • Configuration File
• Copyright

Session Daemon

startcyanotype plans `cysaver --daemon` for the session. The daemon watches idle time (MIT-SCREEN-SAVER when available, else a fallback), runs the chosen hack or blank, and can hand off to the lock greeter.

While a hack is up, the pointer is hidden via cymoused. On DPMS blank or off, the daemon pauses the hack child and resumes it when the tube is on again.

Lock Hotkeys

cywm / cykeys bind Super+L and Ctrl+Alt+L to:

cysaver --lock

That locks now (password for your real account). It does not wait for idle. Unlock is cylogin-greeter --lock, not a separate locker binary.

Command Line

cysaver                 open the Screen Saver panel
cysaver --daemon        session idle arm-er ([--replace])
cysaver --activate      run the saver now
cysaver --lock          lock the screen now
cysaver --apply-timing  push blank/DPMS from conf (no panel)
cysaver --selftest      headless checks

Standard house flags: -h/--help, -V/--version, --log, -v, -q.

Configuration File

~/.cyanotype/cysaver.conf (override: CYSAVER_CONF). Hack choice, enable, lock, idle minutes, lock grace, blank, and DPMS stages live there. The panel Apply and the Timing tab write it; the daemon reads it on start and when told to reload.