user68109
user68109

Reputation: 2476

How to develop linux screen saver

Does anyone have a link or document on how to write a screensaver for Linux?

Upvotes: 23

Views: 11641

Answers (3)

RYFN
RYFN

Reputation: 3069

Here's some info on xscreensaver that you may find of use: xscreensaver also there's an FAQ here.

There's a simple tutorial here too: simplesquares (from the first link)

Upvotes: 9

joe
joe

Reputation: 35117

This might be of interest to you:

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#writing-savers

it's from the xscreensavers homepage, it's sort of the de facto screensaver

Upvotes: 8

Ryan Li
Ryan Li

Reputation: 9340

Google "xscreensaver", and you can learn from its code, rather than starting from scratch.

Upvotes: 0

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