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No, I'm currently using #XScreenSaver as my phone wallpaper ;)
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@Phil_Tanner
I'm sure there's an #xscreensaver hack for flying toasters.
Mrs Wife found the bouncing-cow hack really upsetting. I'm not allowed to use that one. 
Good old #Kumppa. I remember enjoying this #XScreensaver on my 166 MHz Pentium I laptop 25 years ago.
Saw this morning that the new light phone III is OLED-based (I've long said that OLED coupled with a well-tuned dark-mode OS could really rival e-ink), and I felt like reinventing my own Android phone similarly.
I replaced my cat photo wallpaper with a simple #XScreensaver, installed Arcticons, and turned on grayscale mode in Android (it was already dark mode).
I'm loving it!
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
- #K9Mail developer quits Mozilla, thanks @cketti for all the good work
- #surveillance laws want #backdoor access in #France again
- #FOSSGIS 2025 in March, get the app
- #onionshare crash fix soon
- #RiMusic might be in danger
- #SimpleX has group growing pains
- #Termux GUI is finally available
- #Threema Libre reacts
- #VLC with Remote Access
- #XScreenSaver has nice privacy policy
Click for +218 lines of news: https://f-droid.org/2025/02/27/twif.html
f-droid.orgSaving screens | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryThis Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Feb 2025, Week 9F-Droid coreTermux:GUI, A plugin for Termux to use the Android GUI from terminal application...
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Hmm… It seems that #XScreenSaver daemon does not autostart with #XFCE 4.20. Annoying… Can you confirm, @jwz ? Or is it just on my two PCs running #ArchLinux ?
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It's not as... heh... varied as the wonderful #AfterDark of yore, but #XScreensaver is pretty flippin' cool, and available on every platform but Windows: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
I confess I don't run it right now, as I don't have too much use for a screensaver, but XScreensaver has a LOT of modules.
www.jwz.orgXScreenSaverXScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers
for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
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Fantastic.
It occurs to me that processing video this way would be an excellent way for #XScreenSaver to spend some CPU cycles when my machine is idle...
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#XScreensaver has a lot of the old AfterDark modules, including the best version of Flying Toasters I've ever seen.
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...or in order to take a break for a while XD
#XScreensaver to the rescue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScreenSaver#Display_Modes
en.wikipedia.orgXScreenSaver - Wikipedia
Wow. That #XScreenSaver #privacy policy for the #playstore is really a bold and fun move. Kudos! ;) 
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html
Check @BrodieOnLinux's video on it. It really #mademyday.
Switch to #linux for #xscreensaver, lol. Screensavers are so good here.
Anyways apparently #fedora40 uses #wayland ? So I followed this guide: https://www.linux.org/threads/xscreensaver-under-wayland.43543/ to get xscreensaver running. You beaty.
I might make a PR to xscreensaver for native Wayland support when I'm older. And can figure out how to compile a C program.
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@ChuckMcManis Interesting, I'm not even seeing a string 'missing' (case insensitive search, of course) in `/usr/local/bin/xscreensaver*`. #OpenBSD doesn't appear to have an xscreensaver-gl-helper(6) manual page or binary, so maybe the helper is missing? Testing on amd64/7.5-stable with #xscreensaver 6.0.8, I'm able to preview GL screensavers, but haven't tested random. /CC @jwz
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@ChuckMcManis Since you mentioned KDE Plasma, any chance you're testing it with #Wayland under #OpenBSD? According to the #xscreensaver FAQ, Wayland is not supported:
Hah, the void received my #xscreensaver toot and responded by leaving a VHS tape of fractal animations from 1990 in my building's junk room.
Now I need to hook up the VCR and say a little prayer that the tape isn't recorded over with someone's dodgier life choices.
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Although they missed a trick - could have started the blog post off #XScreenSaver style - "Unlike Google,..."
"XScreenSaver for Android is... a set of screen savers and live wallpapers. That's it. It draws pretty pictures on your screen. And it's free. That's the whole deal.
But in their wisdom, Google -- the most rapacious privacy violator on the planet -- have decreed that XScreenSaver cannot be made available on their 'Play' [sic] store until I publish a 'Privacy Policy'."