Where the screensaver?

[pete0512]

Hi all I have a new installation of 64bit 14.04 (installed from USB key) and it works fine apart from the complete lack of a screensaver, it goes from working to screen shutdown without anything in between and search as I will I can't find anywhere to turn on or even install a screensaver :( any ideas anyone? Thanks

[Petro Dawg]

Unless you still have an old CRT monitor, screensavers don't really do anything practical these days and is the likely reason they were removed from current Ubuntu packages. However, I believe Xubuntu and/or Lubuntu still have screensavers by default if you really need one.

There does appear to be a way to add them to vanilla Ubuntu, but I haven't tried it so cannot attest to how well it works...

http://www.n00bsonubuntu.net/content/install-xscreensaver-ubuntu-14-04/ (http://www.n00bsonubuntu.net/content/install-xscreensaver-ubuntu-14-04/)

[pete0512]

Ah so it has been removed, reason I was puzzled before this installation I had the 32bit version and that had a screensaver, just wondered where it had gone :)

[Nuno_Abreu]

Did you try to use XScreensaver?

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver