Using the Panel

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

Using the Panel

The window is titled "Screen Saver". Two tabs sit above the body: Saver and Timing. The button row along the bottom is Apply, Close, and Help. Help opens this book.

The Saver Tab

Left: a preview of the selected hack. Right: the hack list (Blank, Icosahedra, and companions when present). Below: hack options for the current selection, then:

• Enable screen saver -- arm the idle path (timeouts live on Timing).
• Lock the screen -- after the hack exits on activity, ask for your password (cylogin-greeter --lock). Apply proves unlock once when lock is newly requested.

Hack options change with the list selection. Blank has none. Icosahedra and companions expose their own faders in the Hack options frame.

Test Full Screen runs the current hack now without waiting for idle.

The Timing Tab

All timeouts in one place. Blank and DPMS stages cannot be shorter than the screensaver idle when the saver is enabled.

• Screensaver starts after (0-120 min) -- idle before the hack (or blank).
• Lock grace (0-120 sec) -- how long after arm before a dismiss still skips the password prompt.
• Blank the screen after -- X blank (`xset s`), floored at idle.
• Monitor power (DPMS) -- standby / suspend / power-off minutes when "Power the monitor down" is on.

Timing writes live when you move a slider; Apply also pushes blank/DPMS to the display.

Apply, Test, and Close

• Apply writes ~/.cyanotype/cysaver.conf and pushes timing. With lock newly on, it verifies unlock once.
• Test Full Screen runs the chosen hack immediately.
• Close quits the panel. The session daemon keeps arming from conf.

When the saver is off, Timing still owns blank/DPMS if you leave those stages enabled. Idle arm does nothing until Enable is on and Apply has been used (or conf already says enabled).