What's your favorite Scrensaver

[Perfect Storm]

Mine is 'Endgame'.

It really have a cool and prof look. To see 3D chess bricks moving around can really impress people. Also it's relaxing to watch :)

[benplaut]

i change alot, but i really like most of the desktop morph ones :) (spotlight is SWEET)

[openmind]

I think it's called "Flocks", looks like a massive dogfight with extended contrails.

Blue Vs. Pink:D

[hard_i]

My favorite screensaver is "Blank Screen Only" ;-)

[benplaut]

My favorite screensaver is "Blank Screen Only" ;-)

yah... when on mobile, me too ;-)

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openmind... it seems to be installed, but won't play - did you do anything special to it?

[Kvark]

I perfer random, cause variation is always nice. But to mention one... MatrixView's image trick is pretty cool.

[UbuWu]

electricsheep! :cool:

[Rotarychainsaw]

Substrate is the best. You could probably take a screenshot and sell it to an art dealer.

[GeneralZod]

Mirrorblob(?) using your current desktop is really great, as is kglwatersaver.

[bored2k]

Popsquares

[ygarl]

I like BSOD if only to screw with people's heads when they try to use my PC at work.

IT REALLY makes the IT department freak...

I am a very sad person, aren't I? LOL

[xmastree]

I like Euphoria, but it's not included in Breezy... :-(

[lorenco]

My kids ...:D and other cool photos...

[Maggot]

My favorite screensaver is "Blank Screen Only" ;-)
Ditto.

[kahping]

no screensavers for me. it's a habit from Windows i guess. those pesky things always interrupt my video viewing pleasure. always happens everytime after a re-format.

i find it's simpler to just disable the thing than tweaking the settings. tweaking never works for me anyway :-P

kahping

[kassetra]

fuzzy flakes! ... except the green makes me feel weird... I'd prefer sky blue with the blossoms. :)

[XDevHald]

The ants crawling around in their ball like things like the american gladiators show, not sure if they show that anymore on TV :D

[skoal]

I perfer random, cause variation is always nice. But to mention one... MatrixView's image trick is pretty cool.
If MatrixView is the one which makes faces out of those glyph dealamajiggers, then yes, I vote for that one too...

\\//_

[Hobbsee]

BSoD - I love that one!

The one that I use is "Solar Winds" and is part of the rss-glx package...it's so pretty!

[drogoh]

Hyperspace from the Really Slick screensavers (in Linux and Windows flavors!) It's bundled in the default Breezy install and possibly Hoary (definitely Breezy)

Note: Hyperspace is really hard on the processor / graphics controller. Watch at your own risk. (higher end rigs won't have a problem)

[Kapre]

I liked AfterDark (in the dark side :) ) but in real (linux) world its the Matrix Screensaver.

[kahping]

Hyperspace from the Really Slick screensavers (in Linux and Windows flavors!) It's bundled in the default Breezy install and possibly Hoary (definitely Breezy)
Note: Hyperspace is really hard on the processor / graphics controller. Watch at your own risk. (higher end rigs won't have a problem)

I'm running Breezy but i only see Hyperball, Hypercube and Hyper Torus. is there a package in the repositories that needs installing?

kahping

[Ampersand]

I like any of the GL ones, but probably Flying toasters.

[DoeRayMe]

Wormhole, but cant sit and watch it, makes me dizzy :D

[PatrickMay16]

Blank screen. Why? Because I had problems with the computer locking up when I had a screensaver, and found that the blank screen option didn't cause such a problem. But if I could have it working properly, my favorites are "hypercube" and "FlipFlop".

[liquidtenmillion]

I like Phosphor+fast fading(all the way). Then i tell xscreensaver-demo to use a URL for text-based screensavers, and then put in a link to an RSS feed.

That way when the screensaver starts it pulls news stories/posts/etc from the rss feed and displays it at a font size big enough to be seen and read from far away(i can glance up and see the news/etc. from far away whenever i want)

[transactionlogfiller]

There are a few good ones, I like the idea of random but there are just too many awful screenburners that you need to uninstall. Who likes the big red and yellow blocks, for example? Whos idea was that?

[morphodone]

well, no one mentioned xjack yet so here's a plug for it...

[niobe_logos]

For messing with other people's heads, I prefer BSOD.

For messing with my own head, I prefer molecule (trimethylxanthine, anyone?)

[UbuWu]

I like Euphoria, but it's not included in Breezy... :-(

What happened to it??? :( It was one of the best on hoary...

Hmm... very strange, none of the Really Slick Screensavers (package rss-glx, installed by default) show up anymore in xscreensaver...

[UbuWu]

What happened to it??? :( It was one of the best on hoary...
Hmm... very strange, none of the Really Slick Screensavers (package rss-glx, installed by default) show up anymore in xscreensaver...

Euphoria is there: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/euphoria

Filed a bug: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16726

[UbuWu]

And everyone should have a look at these beautiful pictures:

http://www.reallyslick.com/

I really hope them not showing up gets fixed in the next two weeks...

[matthew]

BSOD because it amuses me

Halftone
Halo
Interference
because I like psychadelic-type stuff

[Lux Perpetua]

Flux from the Really Slick package. It's the best screensaver I've seen since After Dark. Flux with the "Regular" preset just plain rocks.

[Perfect Storm]

And everyone should have a look at these beautiful pictures:
http://www.reallyslick.com/
I really hope them not showing up gets fixed in the next two weeks...

Hyperspace looks awesome....must...have...*drools*

[NeoChaosX]

GLMatrix fan here. I love the zoom and rotating effects giving a different vide of the falling code.

[cactus]

umm... does 'blank' count?

[vayu]

The really slick screensavers. I had them on windows. When I found them on Hoary I knew I was going to be alright with this OS. Euphoria is my favorite of those.

[darkmatter]

Euphoria has always been my favorite.

[flexo888]

Flurry, it's a great screensaver. :cool:

[23meg]

popsquares (4x4 blue to black, at slowest), substrate and mismunch.

[Jenda]

Any idea as to how one can blank the screen on command? I need this when I leave the computer overnight. I like having screensavers on normally, though, so I don't want to set blank screen as the only one.

[scaine]

Euphoria is there: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/euphoria

Filed a bug: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16726


I'm running Breezy and also didn't have the RSS screensavers, even though they were showing installed in Synaptic.

Just open a terminal and run "rss-glx_install.pl". You'll have to kill the screensaver daemon first (I used the screensaver applet on the Gnome toolbar).
All the RSS screensavers should be accessible now. Sweet sweet Euphoria.

Scaine

[erikpiper]

Flying toasters!!

[Danielle]

my two favourite screensavers are BouncingCow, it gets better the longer it goes. and i'm using XMatrix at the moment.

http://www.diamondtalk.com/forums/images/smilies/83/bigcool.gif

[dubz]

GLmatrix is better

[Danielle]

GLmatrix is better
it looks really 3D, but it's too slow!

[dubz]

you need you graphics card drivers installed then:)

[benplaut]

Any idea as to how one can blank the screen on command? I need this when I leave the computer overnight. I like having screensavers on normally, though, so I don't want to set blank screen as the only one.

try messing around with 'xscreensaver-command'

[Virak]

Flurry FTW.

[mrt75]

Flurry :)

[Danielle]

you need you graphics card drivers installed then:)
i was thinking about that after i posted. i haven't installed any drivers at all yet :p i need the S3 ProSavage drivers. i'll have alook in Synaptic is that where i should look or do you think i should look at the site?

[Danielle]

i've already got the ones from Synaptic. i'll have a look at the site. thanks for waking me up :D

[Katron]

I like the wormhole. There are lots of other good ones. I've never seen an OS with so many lol