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Xscreensaver
Once the keyboard and mouse have been idle for a period, xscreensaver runs a randomly chosen graphics demo. It turns off as soon as there is any mouse or keyboard activity. It can also lock the screen immediately, after a longer idle period, or on demand. The package has two parts: xscreensaver itself, which detects idleness and does locking; and the graphics demos that it launches.
Any X program that can draw on the root window can be used with xscreensaver. The xscreensaver daemon detects when the user is idle, locking, and checking passwords and all the other book-keeping; all the other programs need to do is draw. New graphics hacks are easier to install than with the combination of the xlock and xautolock programs becuase you needn't recompile or re-run xscreensaver to add a new display mode; you just change a config file.
Last updated 23 Jun, 2005
About
Leadership
- Jamie Zawinski - Maintainer
Requirements
- Motif *or* GTK (Weak Prerequisite)
- XML (Weak Prerequisite)
- Mesa (Weak Prerequisite)
- XPM (Weak Prerequisite)
- Net PBM *or* PBMPlus (Weak Prerequisite)
- GLE (xall for xscreensaver-demo) (Weak Prerequisite)
Related Projects
Subprograms
xscreensaver-demo
Versions
4.22
4.22 stable released 2005-06-23
- Released: 23 Jun, 2005
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-4....
- Licenses: X11
- Interfaces: Daemon
User Community and Support
User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html; user manual available in HTML format from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html