Xscreensaver Electric Sheep Thank You, Pat
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. I express my gratitude. |
As far as I know, Slackware is the ONLY distro that includes Electric Sheep. It's not even in the Gentoo or Arch repos.
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It's a small part of what makes Slackware Unique® :hattip:
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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.
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electricsheep is amazing
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Another superb screensaver, similar to electricsheep, is rss-glx (euphoria, especially), available at SBo, but I get the following error on 14.2:
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(xscreensaver-demo:2843): libglade-WARNING **: Could not load support for `gnome': libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory |
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That was also the moment that the MPlayer was introduced - in Slackware 13.0: Code:
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Thanks, Alien Bob. I think you can see that your efforts are appreciated.
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Just for grins and giggles, as my old boss used to say, here's screenshot of Electric Sheep on Slackware 14.2.
http://pineviewfarm.net/weblog/wp-co..._sheep_500.jpg 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. |
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https://slackalaxy.com/2015/08/07/scaled-electricsheep/ |
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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.
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