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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. 
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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 ArcticIcons, and turned on grayscale mode in Android (it was already dark mode).
I'm loving it! (screenshot coming in an edit...)
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...
Loving the anti-Google pettiness for this Android screensaver app
#android #AndroidApps #google #PlayStore #openSource #ScreenSaver #privacy #XScreenSaver
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html
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For a screen saver. A privacy policy. For a screen saver.
This pantomime where Google pretends to care about your welfare would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad, but here we are anyway.
Ok, strap in!
www.jwz.orgXScreenSaver: Google Store Privacy PolicyXScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers
for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
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@strdst Paging @jwz - need inspiration for a new #xscreensaver hack? 
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Problem with #XScreenSaver not autostarting when opening a #XFCE 4.20 session resolved!
Actually, the XFCE team removed a launcher to be put in ”/etc/xdg/autostart/” that ran XS, because it caused a conflict with their own xfce4-screensaver software (but it’s not installed on my PCs). I restored the deleted laucher in its original place. Hopefully it will work and won’t be removed again after a new XFCE update (I keep a copy of the .desktop file in such case)…
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/-/commit/9a63a6224466c17243fb192a70920133d1f2d3d3
GitLabRemove xscreensaver.desktop (9a63a622) · Commits · Xfce / xfce4-session · GitLabRationale in a nutshell: it is not our role to add launchers for this or that screensaver, especially since this creates conflicts with our own screensaver, for which we also...
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
rpm -qpR signal-desktop-7.13.0.aarch64.rpm
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
at-spi2-core
gtk3
libXScrnSaver
libXtst
libnotify
libuuid
nss
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
xdg-utils
I don’t get the #xscreensaver dependency that #Signal has…
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: