![]() The type you can use will depend upon your installation and hardware. There are different types of screensavers to use with xscreensaver. It was originally released in 1992 and is still going strong today. The xscreensaver package does not only come with a collection of screensavers but also the framework necessary to blank and locking the screen. The xscreensaver package, however, is a much generic package that any Linux distribution, so long as it is running X, can use. Obviously gnome-screensaver and kscreensaver are for GNOME and KDE (respecively). The will generally mean you are looking at one of three screensavers: So the only way to safely add new screensavers is to add those that included with your distribution's repositories. The screensaver is an application that must be linked to X, otherwise it will not work. ![]() ![]() I have been asked numerous times "How do I have screensaver X on my Linux desktop?" To that I generally reply - "If it's a screensaver you just happened to have found on line, more than likely you can't have it." Why is that? ![]()
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