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  • Screensaver got Pi5

    From Brian Howlett@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 11 23:25:26 2026
    Hi.

    Looking for suggestions for a screen saver for a Pi5 if anyone can advise?

    I've tried xscreensaver, but it doesn't work on my system as I'm running Bookworm.

    I know most monitors nowadays don't suffer from burn-in, but I have four different devices connected to the same monitor, and it's useful to have a scrolling message identifying which device is currently displaying when I
    come back to my desk.

    The monitor also switches itself off if it has no input for about 10
    minutes, and I don't want that to happen.

    There's probably a setting in the monitor's menu that either disables that feature, or at least would allow me to extend the time before it powers
    off, but I'd still like a working screen saver for it.

    TIA,
    --
    Brian Howlett
    ----------------------------------------------
    All electronic components run on smoke.
    If you let the smoke out, they stop working...

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Tue Jan 13 09:30:01 2026
    On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:25:26 GMT, Brian Howlett wrote:

    I've tried xscreensaver, but it doesn't work on my system as I'm
    running Bookworm.

    Looks like Jamie Zawinski has no enthusiasm for supporting Wayland.

    Doesn?t mean the actual screensaver modules don?t work. You can still
    run them manually, or via your own wrapper script.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Jim Diamond@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jan 14 11:00:02 2026
    On 2026-01-12 at 04:38 AST, druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
    On 11/01/2026 23:25, Brian Howlett wrote:
    Hi.

    Looking for suggestions for a screen saver for a Pi5 if anyone can advise?

    I've tried xscreensaver, but it doesn't work on my system as I'm running
    Bookworm.

    Configure it to use X11 rather than Wayland, and it will work, along
    with a lot of other things the Wayland developers insist you don't need.

    Was that "Wayland developer" or "Wayland apologist" ? :-)

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jan 14 13:00:02 2026
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:06:27 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:

    Was that "Wayland developer" or "Wayland apologist" ? :-)

    More importantly, given Jamie Zawinski is now supporting Wayland,
    which kind is he?

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)