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No screensavers on wayland #180

Closed Aditeya closed 1 year ago

Aditeya commented 1 year ago

Currently on Xorg we have XScreenSaver but for Wayland we don't have any such program. A program that acts as a screensaver and screen lock.

DraconicNEO commented 1 year ago

I heard that Wayland has the Screen Locker embedded in it with no way to change it out, which is a major disadvantage since it will make it harder to add screensaver. Not sure how accurate that is though, I did see a demo of screensavers running in Wayland (really badly but running) so it might be possible to get them but would require porting.

Aditeya commented 1 year ago

Its not Wayland that implements a Screen Locker (since its a protocol), Its actually the compositor that would implement it... so like sway, river, hyprland. This video by Brodie Robertson explains it pretty well.

As for implementation, I'd assume it'd just be a screen locker but the background is animated (either a video or program). Though I'm not too familiar with it to say definitely.

mpsq commented 1 year ago

Closing, see @Aditeya's comment for reason.

rooiratel commented 1 year ago

Something to keep an eye on : https://sr.ht/~mstoeckl/wscreensaver/