CL Screen savers???
 

are there any command line screen saver programs??? just looking for a simple screen saver so i can leave the terminal up all the time...

is there anything??

thanks:trey

btw: running slackware 9.1

I think you can uncomment the line here that begins with Option in your file ->
/etc/X11/XF86Config

I think that will cause your screen to blank even if you're just running a terminal, but I'm not totally sure. As far as I know, you can't run an actual screen saver from command line because you'd have to have a X server for the screen savers to display.

The console (terminal) will blank out after a time, though. So unless you need the pretty colours you should be OK.

My favorite for a CLI interface...
http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/

that did not seem to work, I thought (or think?) that file only runs after startx?

however; xushi's link is a screen saver that runs in a terminal. i just have to launch it before i leave the screen... which is ok by me.!!

thanks
trey

Cool. Sorry for giving you bad information. I did something at one time to blank my screen rather than using an actual screen saver, and thought that was it.

xlock -remote -mode random
or
xlock -remote -info "`hostname`: `date`" -mode random

-remote option: enable unlock the screen n logout remotely (from other host on network/other room) to free the host for other potential users..
-info option: give usefull information about the hostname and time when the screen lock/screen saver started, reboot is ok if someguy leave public box locked for longer than 20 minutes ..

its cool.. not a problem :) im trying to get a screen saver to run from the CLI, not from within X. xushi's is working well.. i have to start it manually but that is cool.