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  • This didn't work for me. As it finished executing and does not listen to the state changed. Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 13:12
  • which screen saver are you using? gnome or xscreensaver? which flavor ubuntu, xubuntu, kubuntu etc. which version (it was tested on 16.04) Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 14:06
  • ubuntu gnome 16.04 Commented Nov 2, 2016 at 9:25
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    this worked for me on Ubuntu 19.10, but for me the "else" condition kept triggering when other messages unrelated messages popped up on invocation. So I just changed the logic to explicitly check for "false" Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 17:02
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    Might be easier to use a case rather than (non-portable) [[. Instead of grep|awk, consider using a single awk invocation (awk '$1 == "boolean" {print $2}'). Commented Oct 13, 2022 at 15:55