xssstate(1)

xssstate1

Display x screensaver state

Usage

xssstate [-i] [-s] [-t] [-v]

Overview

xssstate will display the state of the X screensaver extension. See below what can be gathered.

Options

-i

show the idle time of X11, in milliseconds.

-s

show the current state of the X screensaver. There is on for the screensaver being active at the moment, off for the screensaver being off and disabled for the screensaver being disabled.

-t

will show the time that needs to be waited until the screensaver should be activated, in milliseconds.

-v

show version information

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–Arch

Authors

See the LICENSE file for the authors.

License

See the LICENSE file for the terms of redistribution.

Bugs

Please report them.

From xssstate 1.1-7 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.