I came across this old IBM screen saver on a old machine and thought it was pretty cool. I set it up on my work laptop, but not Im curious if there are any cool linux or other screen savers you guys know?

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Anyone remember the castaway? The adventures of a guy on a one-tree desert island.

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I don’t think I’ve used a screen saver in over a decade

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It’s better to just put the display to sleep when it’s not in use anyways. We only used screensavers because CRT monitors took so long to fully warm up.

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i forgot which desktop-environment/window-manager it was (icewm?) but it had a nice collection of old screensavers like the pipe maze and the bouncing marque and starfied warp and flying toasters, etc.

it was almost 20 years ago so i assume that ms or apple would have come suing by now

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Pretty sure you’re describing XScreenSaver! Still alive and well :)

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I would bet your right. One of the best collections of screensavers out there. I know they work on X but I haven’t yet tried on Wayland. Guess when I get home I’ll give it a try.

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yes, there was an additional package you could install that came from the project that worked with xscreensaver

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Honestly, play around with Xscreensaver - that’s a fun collection. I’ve currently settled on the Apple II screensaver and have a custom Python script pip Star Trek scripts to it.

The Nakagin capsule tower one is awesome, too.

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Looks cool tbh

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