NAME

xssproxy - forward freedesktop.org Idle Inhibition Service calls to Xss

SYNOPSIS

xssproxy [-v]

DESCRIPTION

xssproxy implements the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver D-Bus interface described in the Idle Inhibition Service Draft by the freedesktop.org developers. The inhibition of the screensaver is then controlled using the XScreenSaverSuspend function from the Xss (X11 Screen Saver extension) library.

OPTIONS

-v --verbose

print messages when receiving inhibition requests

--version

print version information and exit

EXAMPLES

To use run in your ~/.xinitrc file. The program doesn't return so you need to run it in the background.

xssproxy &

AUTHOR

Written by Tim Schumacher.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs at the GitHub issue tracker <https://github.com/timakro/xssproxy/issues>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2017 Tim Schumacher

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent per‐mitted by law.