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[Jamie Zawinski <jwz@xxxxxxx>]

xscreensaver is a daemon, and that's never going to change. If you want
something that locks your screen that is not a daemon, then xscreensaver
is not the software for you.

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Title:
  Support for a non-daemon mode

Status in xscreensaver package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 dev with xscreensaver 5.26-1ubuntu2 and
  normally xscreensaver must run in the background to be able to lock
  the screen. If xscreensaver is not running and the screen is trying to
  be locked this happens:

  sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ xscreensaver-command -lock
  xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0

  
  Maybe xscreensaver can support locking the screen without xscreensaver permanently running in the background as this would save ressources for whose who don't need the daemon features.

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