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Now to make it all RGB and shit πŸ‘Ύ

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

To be even more leet, check out the included screensaver "Gibson". You can hack the Gibson to find the garbage file like a one of the true Hackers (TM).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that was my first choice, but the load was pretty high once I turned everything up to my satisfaction lol 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It clearly takes a lot of work to hack the planet :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

It should get code from own repository and display for better effect :D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

Username checks out πŸ‘ πŸ˜€

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a Wayland equivalent of it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Not quite. Upon a Google, it looks like they are hacks, but Wayland doesn’t support programs (like the Xscreensaver daemon) blanking the screen and would need a standard to do so.

However, these screensavers are just individual binaries that the daemon executes, so although they won’t pop up automatically, you should still be able to run and enjoy them as fun little graphics demos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Jamie Zawinski for the win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Lubuntu ?

We just installed one as a media player for a show and this popped up when sitting unused

Welcome to the club πŸ€—

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No actually, it's a huge pain in the butt process on Plasma, but the built-in ones weren't fun enough πŸ˜€

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

KDE Plasma does not really support the X11 session anymore. It will break more and more, switch to Wayland ;) there are screensavers too I think (the concept is silly lol)

[–] atzanteol 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They know, the wanted to run xscreensaver though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Yeah but forcefully trying to do exactly that results in bad workarounds and trouble. This was the explanation