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AlynxZhou / flipclock

A flip clock screensaver supported by SDL2.
https://flipclock.alynx.one/
Apache License 2.0
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How to use it as a screensaver on Linux? #14

Open hrqmonteiro opened 1 year ago

hrqmonteiro commented 1 year ago

I am on Gnome, and i can open it and close it, ok, but this is not screensaver behavior.

How can i set it as a screensaver? Like setting it to open if the screen is going to be blacked in x minutes or so.

sebastian-65 commented 11 months ago

@hrqmonteiro I'm afraid that won't be possible in terms of flipclock package.

However, it should be fairly easy to emulate this behavior using custom background script that under some circumstances (e.g. no keyboard was pressed for some time and no media is playing), opens up flipclock, and also kills it when some button is pressed.

I could also mention xtrlock screenlock which is a transparent screenlock and will work well together with flipclock.

AlynxZhou commented 11 months ago

I am on GNOME too, and you should notice that GNOME does not support screensaver, so I don't know how to make it a screensaver (is there really a general standard for screensaver under Wayland? I don't care about xscreensaver because I use Wayland.).