I am now onto my 3rd screensaver on XScreensaver. I started out with Scooter, but eventually got tired of it, and moved to Abstractile for about a month, until yesterday, when I switched to BinaryRing. All 3 of them are pretty cool screensavers. I am able to get screenshots while in screensaver mode, which is how I got these 3 images. As long as I don't move the mouse or click anything, the screensaver will remain active. I also softlocked myself today by accident, double clicking the screensaver option, then the screensaver literally would not go away (I could still use programs by keyboard shortcut only, but couldn't see what they were doing) and I had to hard power cycle my system to fix it. (The Scooter screenshot I took isn't very good, it looks much better when animated)
#screensaver #screensavers #xscreensaver #jwz #linux #ubuntu

I know it'll drive me mad soon, but so far having “Bouncing Cow” from #xscreensaver as live phone wallpaper is strangely enjoying experience.

Does anyone know how to install all of the #screensavers in xscreensavers?
My Ubuntu 22.04 laptop is starting to have severe screen burn-in, so I installed xscreensaver tonight. Only about 20 of the default screensavers are installed, but there doesn't seem to be a way to get the rest to activate.
I did something risky, and briefly ran Nautilus as root (I made sure to escape my sudo session quickly) and copied all of the XML files from the latest version directly to the usr/share data path, with the rest of the XML files. However, this appears to do nothing, as it is missing binary data.
#ubuntu #linux #screensaver #help #xorg #xscreensaver

In case there's something gone awry with your email, people are trying to contact you @jwz: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xscreensaver/-/issues/5#note_376477 #XScreenSaver #ArchLinux