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  • Screensaver got Pi5

    From Brian Howlett@news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Sun Jan 11 23:25:26 2026
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    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
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    All electronic components run on smoke.
    If you let the smoke out, they stop working...
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Mon Jan 12 05:55:09 2026
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    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.

    DoesnrCOt mean the actual screensaver modules donrCOt work. You can still
    run them manually, or via your own wrapper script.
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  • From druck@news@druck.org.uk to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Mon Jan 12 08:38:44 2026
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    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.

    ---druck
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Mon Jan 12 08:44:18 2026
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    druck wrote:

    Brian Howlett wrote:

    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
    jwz seems to be waylandifying xscreensaver ...

    <https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html>
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  • From Jim Diamond@zsd@jdvb.ca to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Tue Jan 13 19:06:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.raspberry-pi

    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" ? :-)
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Tue Jan 13 23:35:42 2026
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    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?
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