{"id":332,"date":"2009-10-27T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=332"},"modified":"2016-03-20T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T12:12:36","slug":"kde4-launching-screensaver-from-commandline-or-shortcut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"KDE4: Launching screensaver from commandline or shortcut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the good old days of KDE3? It was so easy to start your favorite screensaver by hand: simply invoke dcop and there we go. But since the dcop framework is no longer part of KDE4 I found myself without a hint of how to create a shortcut to trigger the screensaver.<\/p>\n<p>Until now&#8230; use the following commands to lock the screen with the screensaver running or display the screensaver without locking:<\/p>\n<p><code class=\"hl hl-bash\">qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver <span class=\"sy0\">\/<\/span>ScreenSaver Lock<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code class=\"hl hl-bash\">qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver <span class=\"sy0\">\/<\/span>ScreenSaver SetActive <span class=\"nu0\">1<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps others as it took me too long to find this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the good old days of KDE3? It was so easy to start your favorite screensaver by hand: simply invoke dcop and there we go. But since the dcop framework is no longer part of KDE4 I found myself without a hint of how to create a shortcut to trigger the screensaver. Until now&#8230; use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[326,300,327,427],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-gentoolinux","tag-gentoo","tag-kde","tag-kde4","tag-screensaver"],"views":3068,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}