#Xscreensaver theming install#
#Xscreensaver theming android#
#Xscreensaver theming software#

The XScreenSaver daemon is responsible for detecting idle-ness, blanking and locking the screen, and launching the display modes. The author considers Microsoft to be 'a company with vicious, predatory, anti-competitive business practices' Īnd says that, as one of the original authors of Netscape Navigator, he holds a 'personal grudge' against Microsoft because of its behavior during the First Browser War. There is no official version for Microsoft Windows, and the developer discourages anyone from porting it.

#Xscreensaver theming android#

On Android systems, the XScreenSaver display modes work either as normal screen savers (which Android sometimes refers to as 'Daydreams') or as live wallpapers. On iOS systems, XScreenSaver is a stand-alone app that can run any of the hacks full-screen.

On Macintosh systems, XScreenSaver works with the built-in macOS screen saver.

On those systems, there are several packages: one for the screen-saving and locking framework, and two or more for the display modes, divided somewhat arbitrarily.

#Xscreensaver theming software#

Sometimes.The free software and open-source Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System (such as Linux and FreeBSD) use XScreenSaver almost exclusively. You can have xscreensaver's unlock screen or both, but you can't have just gnome-screensaver's unlock, if you want xscreensaver.Įdit: After resuming from suspend that would have happened after the lock screen timeout for gnome-screensaver AND with lock screen UNselected for xscreensaver, the gnome-screensaver unlock will quickly come up to interrupt the xscreensaver and I will only have to unlock gnome-screensaver's 'pretty' screen, without being bothered by the xscreensaver lock dialog even once. This happens for me even if I set xscreensaver to NOT lock the screen. If you have, in 'brightness and lock' settings under system settings, the screen set to 'require my password when waking from suspend', then, if xscreensaver kicked in before the computer suspended (a question of timing), you will see xscreensaver running on wakeup, and you will have to unlock xscreensaver (the ugly xfce theme), and you will then also be greeted by another screen to unlock, the gnome-screensave theme.

#Xscreensaver theming install#

On 12.04 you can install both xscreensaver and keep default gnome-screensaver, together, despite the 'warnings' about how xscreensaver won't run unless you stop gnome-screensaver (which aren't true). Instead, it simply answers that there's a hacky way of 'themeing' the xscreensaver.Īny advice on what I should do if I want a halfway decent looking login screen with some type of idle computation/display application? On the other hand, if I run xscreensaver and use the xscreensaver-command -lock, then it runs the selected screensaver, but it uses the UGLY UGLY xscreensaver login prompt.Ĭan I replace the XScreenSaver lock dialog with the version from Gnome-Screensaverīut it doesn't appear to answer the question. If I have gnome-screensaver running, it simply blanks the screen. It seems as though gnome-screensaver should be using xscreensaver, but for some reason, I can't get it to work correctly. I'd like to use the xscreensaver functionality (actually, all I want is for electricsheep to run in the background after I have locked the screen), but at the same time, utilize the nicer gnome-screensaver login screen. I am running Ubuntu 12.10, and I just switched over from 11.04.