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Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn’t had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?
Things are moving steadily towards Wayland because Wayland has been steadily improving. In some aspects, it’s currently better than X. Valve certainly thinks so because they use Wayland for the Gaming mode on their Steam Deck.
Some people hate change enough that they’ll blind themselves to that being their core issue, and instead they’ll focus on the imperfect as their argument that things shouldn’t change.
Screensavers aren’t anywhere near as important as they once were since display tech is different now, so if Wayland devs aren’t focusing on them, maybe it’s not such a big deal. X11 isn’t going to disappear overnight, so if you don’t want to use Wayland, then don’t!
Maybe not as important, but I still like having a fancy futuristic animation when a device is locked and idle.
I hope Wayland gets screensaver support at some point.
Absolutely. I still miss my After Dark screensavers from Windows 3.1. They can be fun and add a lot of character to a desktop computer.
I hope it gets support too. X didn’t get all its features overnight, and Wayland won’t either.
Screensavers are arguable completely useless, because you can just turn off the screen now. Screensavers were invented when the computer couldn’t control the screen.
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