Which is the best aquarium or ocean screensaver
I'd like a realistic-looking aquarium/ocean scene screensaver. Does anyone have any favourites that I ought to look at, please?
There have been similar threads in the past, but they're all several years old now, and I wondered if there were some better new screensavers available. |
In the Linux world, xscreensaver's Atlantis module isn't too bad, but I wouldn't mind seeing something more colorful (Atlantis is deep sea--whales and sharks; some tropical would be nice, at least while the Great Barrier Reef still lives.
The Linux screensaver world is very different from Windows'. You do not commonly find third-party screensavers for download and installation. Xscreensaver is the granddaddy of all the major Linux screensavers and most of the others that I've encountered are respins of Xscreensaver branded by various desktop projects (e.g. Gnome-screensaver, MATE-screensaver, kscreensaver). As far as I am concerned, none of those respins stand up to the original; if I install a distro with one of them, I replace it will Xscreensaver. That's just my experience, mind. |
+1 Xscreensaver...
check this out: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#mpeg or another way to make a video screensaver from some HD. ;) |
I haven't actually tried it, but Asciiquarium and its forks look to be worth a try.
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In Linux, I think Atlantis is the best one is going to get. Not that it's bad at all, (in fact, it's my favorite screesaver in Linux,) it's just not as realistic as some of the aquarium screensaver software I've seen for Windows. :twocents: Regards... |
I've successfully run "Marine Aquarium 3" (MA3) on Ubuntu 22.04 using wine. There was very little effort to get it running in fullscreen or windowed mode. The Specific version of MA3 is "20A12.3.3.6381"
Download from: https://www.serenescreen.com/ To install: Code:
$ sudo apt install wine Code:
$ wine marineaquarium3.scr Code:
$ wine marineaquarium3.scr - The photo Album has 1920x1200 examples, one full screen, and one full screen windowed example. It also has one smaller windowed screen snippet that I used for this post. Photo Album https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw...-no?authuser=0 |
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Not a screensaver, but there is xfishtank, It animates you window background.
But if you use KDE/GNOME/XFCE will not work (note, seems the new fvwm2 can have issues with it, you can loose your menu. But it works with other windowmanagers. I have not executed this in a very long time) slackbuilds.org Xfishtank I put the slackbuild here because I list the link to its WEB Site, but it has a link to the sourecode. I usually executed as: Code:
xfishtank -f 10 -c #2f426c Rant: These old X utilities I will miss when Linux deprecates X. Already many of these do not work with desktop environments. |
One could search* use video as a screensaver
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where is the scr file to be downloaded? does it work on raspberry pi rpi4 ? |
everybody knows these fish are extinct by now, right... the world's population divided by two and multiplied by itself so the rest maybe soon https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...rm-for-screwed
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win 31 with dosbox WINDOWS 95 a on raspberry PI: gunzip drive-c.img.gz ; imgmount 2 drive-c.img -size 512,63,16,1015 -t hdd -fs none ; boot -l C |
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You might be right; since before ^2013 those are some of the worst kind, https://www.theworldcounts.com/chall...c-in-the-ocean but I digressed... :doh:
[ON-TOPIC]https://cobberlinux.wordpress.com/20...ux-tools-mate/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...x-screen-saver[/ON-TOPIC] :D https://www.ywamemerge.org/oasys https://www.fishforums.net/threads/h...e-dark.161627/ I love how the plastic industry is still telling us how great plastic is... https://friendsoftheearth.uk/plastic...0even%20coal). :rolleyes: |
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