I quite like running, and cycling (of which there is /s/bicycles) and other forms of activity away from a computer. The irony of wanting to talk about things away from a computer on a computer is not ...

At Tedium, Ernie Smith writes: Having seen a lot of pipes, wavy lines, and flying toasters in my day, there was a real novelty to the art of screen savers, which became another way to put your visual ...

Google Play Store requires a privacy policy even for apps that don’t collect any data. Jamie Zawinski, a developer of the XScreenSaver application, didn’t mince words when complying with the ...

Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer. Copyright Plagiarism of XScreenSaver and IBM Red Hat Software Patents. On Jamie Zawinski’s blog post about people taking ...

Basically I lock the screen with xscreensaver within Window Maker, and the screen turns off via DPMS. But when the screen is woken up, the dock and windows can be seen under the lock window, and the ...

FRIDAY FOSS FEST If you're old enough to remember After Dark, you might appreciate this: a new screensaver. Yes, in 2023. It was never really about saving screens. Screensavers are a simple tech for a ...

Are you interested in seeing the matrix effect in which text (glyphs) is raining on the screen? If so, you should definitely install Xscreensaver on your Linux computer. This phenomenon was ...

mpv prevent Xscreensaver to run, I have the option "no-stop-screensaver" in the config file. Version mpv-1:0.34.1 (I downgraded to version mpv-1:0.34.0 the bug is not present) Operating System: Arch ...