---
title: Regular screenshots
#description: 
#feed_description: 
author: Issa Rice
creation_date: 2015-09-09
last_major_revision_date: 2015-09-09
language: English
# Possible values are "notes", "draft", "in progress", and
# "mostly finished"
status: notes
# Possible values are "certain", "highly likely", "likely", "possible",
# "unlikely", "highly unlikely", "remote", "impossible", "fiction", and
# "emotional"
#belief: possible
# accepts "CC0", "CC-BY", or "CC-BY-SA"
license: CC0
tags: untagged
#aliases: 
---

In Linux Mint MATE^[See also [How to check if screen saver is running?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4327187/how-to-check-if-screen-saver-is-running) for other desktops.]:

```bash
sleep 5s; qdbus org.mate.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver org.mate.ScreenSaver.GetActive
```