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Xscreensaver - Screen saver and locker for the X Window System

Once the keyboard and mouse have been idle for a period, xscreensaver runs a randomly chosen graphics demo. It turns off as soon as there is any mouse or keyboard activity. It can also lock the screen immediately, after a longer idle period, or on demand. The package has two parts: xscreensaver itself, which detects idleness and does locking; and the graphics demos that it launches.

Any X program that can draw on the root window can be used with xscreensaver. The xscreensaver daemon detects when the user is idle, locking, and checking passwords and all the other book-keeping; all the other programs need to do is draw. New graphics hacks are easier to install than with the combination of the xlock and xautolock programs becuase you needn't recompile or re-run xscreensaver to add a new display mode; you just change a config file.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
Source tarballhttp://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-4.16.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html
Version 4.16 (stable) released on 2004-05-13
Licensed under an X11-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html; user manual available in HTML format from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html
Support contacts

Help List<jwz@jwz.org>
Developer List<jwz@jwz.org>
Bug List<jwz@jwz.org>

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Related information

Interfacesdaemon
Programsxscreensaver-demo
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisitesMotif *or* GTK, XML, Mesa, XPM, Net PBM *or* PBMPlus, GLE (xall for xscreensaver-demo)

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-06-06
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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