Why don’t we have better screensavers. Raspbian has NO screensaver.
xscreensaver
The drama behind xscreensaver was so amusing to me, I want to me Jaime.
What I learned from jmz
jmz is the awesome. I mean wtf. Because of his code/error messages, I realized the following:
1. no bc in Raspbian
2. Debian is bug driven and won’t update packages without bugs even if there is a more current version.
3. Jaime is a fucking rock star!
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/
The whole wayland thing has me concerned about the state of my own software, respin.
That’s just extraneous software – easily done by rsync or …meh dd.
xscreensaver saves the day
However, I was informed by an evangelist who does hackathons that at one point an image locked up and there was no way to get past the screen lock. Installing xscreensaver then disabling lock did the trick. I’m sure there are more refined ways of doing things, but being able to hack past a problem using xscreensaver was … delicious.
Fuck Debian.
It still isn’t in stable. Years later. I did compile the newer version from source. For some reason there were C++ comments… just 2 that held up my compile. – No worries if you run into an error, that was the only error.
So, solid code.
But lets talk about images now.
We can customize … use free culture or public domain images. Let’s do this thing!
They are getting worse and worse. I continue to speculate that Ian died on the cusp of leaving Linux Foundation.
OT
P.S. Linux foundation fired all writers last month. Roy was the only one who noticed and wrote about it.