XScreenSaver 5.06 out now. Only one new hack this time, but it's a fine one, if I do say so myself. Also this includes a bunch of fixes related to adding, removing and resizing monitors (RANDR/Xinerama) on X11 systems, as I mentioned earlier . So please stress-test that junk. Or be devoured.
Dear Lazyweb, I could use some Linux xscreensaver debugging help. I made some fairly large changes to make it cope with the brave new RANDR world where monitors can be hot-swapped and have their resolution changed willy-nilly. Please apply this patch and test some things for me, k? Launch xscreensaver with -verbose to see what it's actually up to. "Bad" would be 1) crashing, 2) part of your desktop...
Hey, want to help out with some xscreensaver hacking? Recent-ish Linux systems have made it so that when you add or remove monitors (e.g., docking a laptop) the system is actually aware that this has happened (shocking, I know) and dynamically changes the size, position, and number of screens. Based on the email complaints I'm getting, it would appear that xscreensaver handles this... poorly....
...comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Gnome-screensaver ... nice touch Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:38:14 -0500 On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:31:51 +0000, [H]omer wrote: > Usually I just stick with xscreensaver, Yawwn....... Is this what Linux advocacy has sunk to? Don't you guys have anything more interesting to talk about than patents and screen savers? -- Moshe Goldfarb Collector of...
Hey kids, here's something fun to try! Remember those Magic Eye "random dot stereogram" things, where if you crossed your eyes just right, you could see 3D pictures? So. Run the rd-bomb screen...a random dot stereogram. Now it looks like your monitor is a window and the seething pattern is about ten feet away. Ooooooh, trippy. Keep this up for a couple hours and it'll be time for lunch!
This is awesome: SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screen saver that shows about 400 live security camera videos from public accessible Axis network cameras. It shows surprising scenes from underwater pool cameras, cows in milking machines, to shopping malls and street cameras.
