Which is the best aquarium or ocean screensaver

Celtic Yokel · 08-02-2016, 03:43 AM

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.

frankbell · 08-02-2016, 03:04 PM

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.

jamison20000e · 08-02-2016, 03:26 PM

+1 Xscreensaver...

check this out: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#mpeg
or another way to make a video screensaver from some HD.

dugan · 08-02-2016, 06:51 PM

I haven't actually tried it, but Asciiquarium and its forks look to be worth a try.

ondoho · 08-04-2016, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamison20000e

check this out: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#mpeg

it also allows for a swf (aka flash) file to be played, i could imagine some aquarium flash animation exists...

ardvark71 · 08-04-2016, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

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.

+1

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.

Regards...

wryan67 · 08-18-2023, 01:06 PM

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 
$ wine MarineAquarium3.exe

To change settings:

Code:

$ wine marineaquarium3.scr

To run directly, add a dash:

Code:

$ wine marineaquarium3.scr -

Settings can be accessed while the screen saver is running by pressing the space bar.

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

jmccue · 08-19-2023, 11:01 AM

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

See attached window (fvwm2), the fish will swim by behind the windows.

Rant:
These old X utilities I will miss when Linux deprecates X. Already many of these do not work with desktop environments.

jamison20000e · 08-20-2023, 06:32 AM

One could search* use video as a screensaver

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Xeratul · 08-21-2023, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celtic Yokel

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.

rain.c is a light screensaver

Code:


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <term.h>	
#include <curses.h>
// or ncurses.c

#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <signal.h>
/* rain 11/3/1980 EPS/CITHEP */

static float ranf(void);
static void onsig(int sig);

static int next_j(int j)
{
    if (j==0) j=4; else --j;
    if (has_colors()) {
	int z = (int)(3*ranf());
	chtype color = COLOR_PAIR(z);
	if (z)
	    color |= A_BOLD;
	attrset(color);
    }
    return j;
}

//int main(
//	int argc GCC_UNUSED,
//	char *argv[] GCC_UNUSED)


int main( int argc, char *argv[])
{
int x, y, j;
static int xpos[5], ypos[5];
float r;
float c;

    //for (j=SIGHUP;j<=SIGTERM;j++)
    //	if (signal(j,SIG_IGN)!=SIG_IGN) signal(j,onsig);

    initscr();
    if (has_colors()) {
	int bg = COLOR_BLACK;
	start_color();
#ifdef HAVE_USE_DEFAULT_COLORS
	if (use_default_colors() == OK)
		bg = -1;
#endif
	init_pair(1, COLOR_BLUE, bg);
	init_pair(2, COLOR_CYAN, bg);
    }
    //nl();
    //noecho();
    curs_set(0);
    //timeout(0);

    r = (float)(LINES - 4);
    c = (float)(COLS - 4);
    for (j=5;--j>=0;) {
	xpos[j]=(int)(c* ranf())+2;
	ypos[j]=(int)(r* ranf())+2;
    }

    for (j=0;;) {
         nodelay( stdscr, TRUE );
         usleep( 1e6 /2 /5 ); 


	x=(int)(c*ranf())+2;
	y=(int)(r*ranf())+2;

	mvaddch(y,x, '.');

	mvaddch(ypos[j], xpos[j], 'o');

	j = next_j(j);
	mvaddch(ypos[j], xpos[j], 'O');

	j = next_j(j);
	mvaddch( ypos[j]-1, xpos[j],    '-');
	mvaddstr(ypos[j],   xpos[j]-1, "|.|");
	mvaddch( ypos[j]+1, xpos[j],    '-');

	j = next_j(j);
	mvaddch( ypos[j]-2, xpos[j],     '-');
	mvaddstr(ypos[j]-1, xpos[j]-1,  "/ \\");
	mvaddstr(ypos[j],   xpos[j]-2,  "| O |");
	mvaddstr(ypos[j]+1, xpos[j]-1,  "\\ /");
	mvaddch( ypos[j]+2, xpos[j],     '-');

	j = next_j(j);
	mvaddch( ypos[j]-2, xpos[j],     ' ');
	mvaddstr(ypos[j]-1, xpos[j]-1,  "   ");
	mvaddstr(ypos[j],   xpos[j]-2, "     ");
	mvaddstr(ypos[j]+1, xpos[j]-1,  "   ");
	mvaddch( ypos[j]+2, xpos[j],     ' ');

	xpos[j] = x; ypos[j] = y;

	switch(getch())
	{
	case('q'):
	case('Q'):
	    curs_set(1);
	    endwin();
	    return(EXIT_SUCCESS);
	case 's':
	    nodelay(stdscr, FALSE);
	    break;
	case ' ':
	    nodelay(stdscr, TRUE);
	    break;
#ifdef KEY_RESIZE
	case(KEY_RESIZE):
	    r = (float)(LINES - 4);
	    c = (float)(COLS - 4);
	    break;
#endif
	}
	//napms(50);
    }
}




//static void onsig(int n GCC_UNUSED)
static void onsig(int n )
{
    curs_set(1);
    endwin();
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

static float
ranf(void)
{
    long r = (rand() & 077777);
    return ((float) r / 32768.);
}

Xeratul · 08-21-2023, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wryan67

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 
$ wine MarineAquarium3.exe

To change settings:

Code:

$ wine marineaquarium3.scr

To run directly, add a dash:

Code:

$ wine marineaquarium3.scr -

Settings can be accessed while the screen saver is running by pressing the space bar.

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

where is the scr file to be downloaded? does it work on raspberry pi rpi4 ?

jamison20000e · 08-22-2023, 02:35 PM

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

Xeratul · 08-27-2023, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celtic Yokel

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.

what about dosbox for SCR file in windows 31 or in windows 95 a????

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

Xeratul · 08-27-2023, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamison20000e

everybody knows these fish are extinct by now, right... the world's population divided by two and multiplied by itself plus the rest maybe https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...rm-for-screwed

fishes made out of plastic ???`

(sorry for the joke)

jamison20000e · 08-27-2023, 11:21 AM

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...

[ON-TOPIC]https://cobberlinux.wordpress.com/20...ux-tools-mate/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...x-screen-saver[/ON-TOPIC]

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).