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Someone more competent and familiar with x-screensaver than me could probably make some thing out of this. #xscreensaver #linuxmint

Wayland schmayland, wake me up when there's Wscreensaver

#xscreensaver

So #XScreensaver has become pretty annoying following some change in #X11 rules or something; it frequently doesn't capture the first few keystrokes if just start typing when the screen is locked and powered off (but the computer is awake). I have to hit a key, wait for it to wake up, see if the key took, and then continue. (I frequently just hit shift, so I can simply start typing when it wakes.

Does someone know how to fix this, or have a suggestion for a replacement? #AskFedi

ohno! #xscreensaver does not work on #wayland! whattaimgonnado!

note: the X wayland layer is not enough.

Ok, today's #DailyDoodle is really just a quick scribble, obviously, but there really was more thought behind it than you might assume.

My first idea was to try to draw something without lifting the pen, and to just enjoy the feeling of (digital) pen on (digital) paper. Then I closed my eyes, and the first thing I saw in my mind was the kind of display you'd get on several #XScreensaver modules, like "Strange Attractors." Lots of 90s and 2000s screensavers made use of pretty complex math to generate fascinating images, so I started to try to replicate that effect (of an oval within an oval). But I didn't stop at two ovals, but kept going until I had something resembling a flower.

Then I started thinking about the spirograph, and how neat an effect they could produce with just simple gears. So I thought I'd try to use the same no-lift-pen method to try to produce a rough approximation of that.

And then, of course, "This is not a wormhole," because I love surrealism.

Spirograph-looking scribble with "Ceci n'est pas un trou de ver" handwritten on the bottom.

Is there no #XScreenSaver hack screenshot gallery? Either that or my search-engine-fu is very low this morning...

#Linux

I miss the simpler days of #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop when I could run #XScreenSaver as a root window background.

Does anyone know if there's a way to enable a sensible on-screen keyboard with #XScreensaver? (this might be a question for @jwz).

This is for use on a tablet, there's no physical keyboard unless I plug one in, and that's a hassle when you're out and about.

At the moment I'm battling the default #KDE lock screen and its rather crippled on-screen keyboard (see https://discuss.kde.org/t/customise-or-replace-the-on-screen-keyboard-on-the-lock-screen/32739/7) which is in my opinion, totally unfit for the purpose of screen locking as it does not allow convenient entry of a secure password.

Switching the lock screen to using `xscreensaver` is a very viable option: if I can enable an on-screen keyboard.

I don't mind what the on-screen keyboard is. It could be `onboard`, it could be `qtvirtualkeyboard` (I think that's what KDE is using), it could be `xvkbd`… don't care… so long as it displays a "standard" (for me that's US layout but I'll define "standard" as one matching 99% of the keyboards you can buy at a shop) key layout with letters, symbols and digits in their usual places.

I otherwise do use `xscreensaver` on non-tablets, and it is actually my preferred option. This machine though, has special needs.

the AI in #Xscreensaver pac-man is stressful to watch, maybe at some point I can hack on it

also the level generator just generated a map with a zero-thickness wall in the maze, never seen that before 👀

Well... I spoke too soon. picom is a no go for my particular gpu drivers on FreeBSD. It still kills my wake from sleep monitor. I setup x-screensaver and now I don't have problems. #picom #FreeBSD #xScreenSaver

@tripplehelix

No, I'm currently using #XScreenSaver as my phone wallpaper ;)

Good old #Kumppa. I remember enjoying this #XScreensaver on my 166 MHz Pentium I laptop 25 years ago.

Kumppa module of XScreensave in action on Android

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!

Grayscale KISS launcher with XScreensaver background
Just a time/weather widget, six quick-launch icons (four of which are app groups), and a search bar

Similar as before, but showing the recent and frequently used apps:
RoMote
Settings
Droid-ify
PipePipe
F-Droid
Phone
KDE Connect
GMaps WV
Signal
AntennaPod
Tusky

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