light-locker(1)

light-locker1

Screen locker

Usage

light-locker [OPTIONS ...]

Overview

light-locker is a simple locker (forked from gnome-screensaver) that aims to have a simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies.

Options

--debug

Enable debugging code

--lock-after-screensaver=S

Lock the screen S seconds after the screensaver started. Use 0 to disable this

--late-locking

Lock the screen on screensaver deactivation

--no-late-locking

Lock the screen on screensaver activation

--lock-on-suspend

Lock the screen on suspend/resume

--no-lock-on-suspend

Do not lock the screen on suspend/resume

--lock-on-lid

Lock the screen on lid close

--no-lock-on-lid

Do not lock the screen on lid close

--idle-hint

Set the session idle hint while the screenaver is active

--no-idle-hint

Don't set the idle hint. Let something else handle that

This program also accepts the standard GTK options.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8
  2. 9–Arch

--idle-hint since Debian 9 (Stretch); --lock-on-lid since Debian 9 (Stretch); --no-idle-hint since Debian 9 (Stretch); --no-late-locking since Debian 9 (Stretch); --no-lock-on-lid since Debian 9 (Stretch); --no-lock-on-suspend since Debian 9 (Stretch).

From light-locker 1.9.0-7 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.