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I use XScreensaver to lock my screen with all screensavers enabled in a random rotation. I often come back to my laptop and wonder which screensaver I was just looking at (to configure the options for it, or just to run it again and get a better look)

How can I figure out which one was most recently run?

Bonus points: I have 2 monitors, and xscreensaver plays a different screen saver on each (still random). Is there a way to determine both?

ComputerDruid
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I'm optimistic that xscreensaver will record its screen saver choices into a log file if the right logging/debugging options are enabled. I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but will update if/when I do. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XScreenSaver#Debugging

Nick Russo
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A partial answer is that running xscreensaver-demo immediately will highlight the screensaver last used on one of the monitors.

John Lawrence Aspden
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