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Cool screen savers (archive.org)
submitted 3 days ago by neatobuilds@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I came across this old IBM screen saver on a old machine and thought it was pretty cool. I set it up on my work laptop, but not Im curious if there are any cool linux or other screen savers you guys know?

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[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Looks cool tbh

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.one 3 points 3 days ago

Anyone remember the castaway? The adventures of a guy on a one-tree desert island.

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

Honestly, play around with Xscreensaver - that's a fun collection. I've currently settled on the Apple II screensaver and have a custom Python script pip Star Trek scripts to it.

The Nakagin capsule tower one is awesome, too.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I don't think I've used a screen saver in over a decade

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

It's better to just put the display to sleep when it's not in use anyways. We only used screensavers because CRT monitors took so long to fully warm up.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

i forgot which desktop-environment/window-manager it was (icewm?) but it had a nice collection of old screensavers like the pipe maze and the bouncing marque and starfied warp and flying toasters, etc.

it was almost 20 years ago so i assume that ms or apple would have come suing by now

[-] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure you're describing XScreenSaver! Still alive and well :)

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago

yes, there was an additional package you could install that came from the project that worked with xscreensaver

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