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I have noticed that, on many distros, Xscreensaver does not include Electric Sheep, which is a graphically beautiful project.
I was on my Mageia box today and decided to look at how to get Electric Sheep to work on it. When I went to the website, I found that Electric Sheep is currently available for Linux (and some other OSs) only in sources. Having other things to do, I did not attempt to install it in Mageia this afternoon.
But I am pleased that is in Xscreensaver on Slackware.
Not only that, but Pat is one of the only distributors who makes an exception to the usual "security and stability updates only" rule for patches for point releases and keeps xscreensaver up to date per jwz's express wishes.
Another superb screensaver, similar to electricsheep, is rss-glx (euphoria, especially), available at SBo, but I get the following error on 14.2:
Code:
(xscreensaver-demo:2843): libglade-WARNING **: Could not load support for `gnome': libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gnome? I installed using sboinstall, which, I believe, installs dependencies, even though libgnome is not listed as a dependency.
Last edited by Gerard Lally; 01-06-2019 at 01:36 PM.
As far as I know, Slackware is the ONLY distro that includes Electric Sheep. It's not even in the Gentoo or Arch repos.
It took some convincing to get it added ;-)
That was also the moment that the MPlayer was introduced - in Slackware 13.0:
Code:
+--------------------------+
Tue May 19 15:36:49 CDT 2009
xap/MPlayer-r29301-i486-1.txz: Added MPlayer-r29301. This is shipped without
DeCSS support (binary or source), and with patent-encumbered encoders
disabled, but it's still very capable of media playback.
Thanks to Eric Hameleers for the build script and encouragement.
xap/electricsheep-20090306-i486-1.txz: Added electricsheep-20090306,
a distributed screensaver. This requires MPlayer.
Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
xap/xscreensaver-5.08-i486-2.txz: Patched to support electricsheep.
Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
I took it by telling Ksnapshot to take a screenshot in [mumble] seconds and then putting xscreensaver in preview mode, then I cropped it down in the GIMP. My monitor is 16:9, but Electric Sheep seems to default to 4:3 on the desktop.
I took it by telling Ksnapshot to take a screenshot in [mumble] seconds and then putting xscreensaver in preview mode, then I cropped it down in the GIMP. My monitor is 16:9, but Electric Sheep seems to default to 4:3 on the desktop.
My monitor is 16:9, but Electric Sheep seems to default to 4:3 on the desktop.
I believe that 4:3 is the native resolution of the free 'sheep', looks like $20 per year will get you some 'gold' sheep that natively come in 16:9. I have not paid and tried but I confess that I am tempted. Maybe a shirt as well
I remember using that years ago on Windows. Personally, I don't have any use for a screensaver anymore. Just give me a simple screen locker and turn off the screen after a minute or two, but I will admit that electric sheep makes some pretty cool animations.
Thanks, this fixes the scaling. It seems to be very blurry though. Is there a way to get a sharper image?
Quote:
Originally Posted by montagdude
I remember using that years ago on Windows. Personally, I don't have any use for a screensaver anymore. Just give me a simple screen locker and turn off the screen after a minute or two, but I will admit that electric sheep makes some pretty cool animations.
Are there practical uses for screensavers anymore? These days I just have xscreensaver choose one at random, I quite like some of the '90s retro ones.
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