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No, I'm currently using #XScreenSaver as my phone wallpaper ;)
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@Phil_Tanner
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. 
Good old #Kumppa. I remember enjoying this #XScreensaver on my 166 MHz Pentium I laptop 25 years ago.
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 Arcticons, and turned on grayscale mode in Android (it was already dark mode).
I'm loving it!
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!
Because of course a screen saver absolutely has to have a privacy policy:
#XScreenSaver: #Google Store #Privacy Policy
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html
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@strdst Paging @jwz - need inspiration for a new #xscreensaver hack? 
I have to say, the real version of the #XscreenSaver #LamentConfiguration screen saver is even quicker on an #M4 #MacMini … !
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Diese Karte ist nicht nur bildschön, man kann sie sich auch mit #xscreensaver
als Bildschirmschoner laufen lassen 
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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.
The simplest (and most entertaining) #privacy policy ever. For instance:
Unlike #Google, #XScreenSaver will honor deletion requests if you email us asking to delete all none of your user data that does not exist.
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html
Published a small tool I wrote some time ago, that will find every instance of #xscreensaver running on the local machine, send it a lock command and turn off the lights.
If run as a regular user, it will lock every xscreensaver to which the executing user has permissions to grab the XAUTHORITY token file.
It will not reach instances running on remote hosts, i.e. if you `ssh -X` into a remote machine, it will not reach your local #X11 display and vice versa.
git.datenwolf.netlockall-xscreensaver - Lock all instances of xscreensaver running on the local machine
"Your personal information is very important to us.", part two
Barely six weeks after the XScreenSaver for Android Privacy Policy fiasco, Google, is up to brand new fuckery. As far as I can tell, they're saying that if I don't give them a copy of my driver's license, they're going to remove XScreenSaver and XDaliClock from their "Play" [sic] store.
So that's obviously not going to happen.
And gosh, I'm all broken up about the consequences.
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