Which screensaver theme just ran?

bpglinux · 2023-01-09 03:29:28

Running xfce4-screensaver with -many- themes, set to random.

How do I determine which theme just ran? So I can do things like adjust settings, disable themes I don't like, etc.

xfce4-screensaver seems to have the same management UI, or very similar, to good ol' xscreensaver, which I used to run on older machines. xscreensaver management UI would open to the most recent theme to run if you opened it after unlocking the screen. xfce4-screensaver management UI does not seem to do this.

ToZ · 2023-01-09 12:23:16

Hello and welcome.

I wasn't able to find any way for the app to display the running screensaver as an overlay on the screen. However, you could run the screensaver in debug mode, pipe the output to a file, and search for a specific string to identify the screensaver:

xfce4-screensaver-command --exit
xfce4-screensaver --debug > /tmp/gs-debug-log.txt 2>&1

And then after a screensaver has run:

cat /tmp/gs-debug-log.txt | grep "Setting command for job" | awk '{print $3 $8}'

...to identify which one it was.

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Which screensaver theme just ran?

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Re: Which screensaver theme just ran?

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