2-cent tip: Starting screensaver in KDE

clarjon1 [clarjon1 at gmail.com]

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:04:59 -0500

Well, here's a little tidbit I've found that may be of use to some people. As many KDE users may know, you can have a keyboard shortcut set to lock the screen. You can do the same with just starting the screensaver!

Create a new item in the KDE menu editor, name it whatever youwant, and have it to run this command: kdesktop_lock --dontlock

Set it to a keyboard shortcut, save the menu, and viola! You now have a keyboard shortcut to start your screensaver.

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:12:15 -0500

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:04:59PM -0500, clarjon1 wrote:

> Well, here's a little tidbit I've found that may be of use to some people.
> As many KDE users may know, you can have a keyboard shortcut set to
> lock the screen.  You can do the same with just starting the
> screensaver!
> 
> Create a new item in the KDE menu editor, name it whatever youwant,
> and have it to run this command:
> kdesktop_lock --dontlock
> 
> Set it to a keyboard shortcut, save the menu, and viola!  You now have

^^^^^ Is that the screensaver with the musical instruments?

> a keyboard shortcut to start your screensaver.

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