Open Source C++ Screen Savers

Display power off utility. Powers off desktop/notebook display and optionally locks workstation. Can be set as a screensaver. Can be launched as a system tray icon application.

Really Slick Screensavers is primarily a collection of eye candy. The various libraries included in this project may be used for the creation of other screensavers or to support other software projects.

A port of Calum Robinson's Flurry Screen Saver to Win32. The goal is to provide a Windows version of this screensaver for those of us without a Mac.

A KDE 4 screensaver that shows an underwater ocean seen with sea creatures. In particular, swimming Baracudas and sharks. A treasure chest lies on the sea floor with a ship wrecked in the background.

This project has evolved from its original version into Calimero (a new Windows desktop wallpaper manager). Details here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kalimero/ WallPaper (alias crawlpaper) is a desktop changer (NOT a screensaver) which includes a web crawler for picture download, an audio stream ripper, an audio player, a mini mp3 tag editor,etc. Also included support for .zip and .rar files and an interface to the BerkleyDB code for small databases.

The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.

Whorld is a free, open-source visualizer for sacred geometry. It uses math to create a seamless animation of mesmerizing psychedelic images. You can VJ / veejay with it, make unique digital artwork with it, or sit back and watch it like a screensaver

Media Sentry stands for Multimedia Alarm Clock for Windows. It exploits Windows Media Player for playback, has low power consumption despite of OpenGL GUI.

Vital Desktop is a desktop animation utility, a program designed to bring a fresh new look to your desktop. Never again will you be faced with the same static background every time. Now, your desktop actually comes alive!

This is a Matrix alike 3D OpenGL screen saver for KDE and X11 window system.

Simple screensaver winter theme. Requires DirectX 9.0

At rural colleges and similar settings, people form very distinct paths in the snow as they walk across open spaces. This program models that process. The evolving condition of the snow is displayed graphically. Snowpath may be used as a screensaver.

Souvenirs transform your all-in-one PC, when not in use, into an intelligent digital photo frame. It combines a smart slideshow designed to remember your good memories, and a concept of desktop designed for short and fast service. For Windows7 only.

Remember the pixely Bezier lines? They're gone. Now we have transparent, anti aliased polygons in true 3D. The future of this is already clear: real time path tracing of turbid media, and a haze of glowing droplets. Just wait.

A Matrix Rain is a classic matrix screensaver, which can capture a video from your web-camera and display video like the "matrix-style" in real time.

An OS X screen saver that renders a 3d "perpetual motion" desk toy with up to 10 weighted rings.

I try to write a screensaver with very simple fractal paintings for MS Windows (scr file).

A screensaver that animates various julia set fractals morphing at high resolution in real time. Now with support for Windows XP!!

JScreenSaver is the middleware to make a screen saver for Windows in Java language. JScreenSaver itself is being written in the Java language and the C++ language. JScreenSaver starts the screen saver which you wrote in Java language. J2SE 1.4.0 later.

Photoss collects photos from various different locations, such as flickr or a local folder, and then displays them on screen or inside a webpage. It has multiple monitor support and will display a different photo on each monitor.

The „Old Polish Clock” Screen Saver Our model is a replica from the turning point of XIX and XX century.

Windows Screen Saver which types text (quotations from famous people, jokes, or poetry), on screen

This is a matrix inspired screen saver written in c++. It has some cool options. You can choose the color of the columns of characters. The available colors are green, red, blue, orange, yellow, purple, rainbow, and monochrome. it has been compiled and tested on windows 11 pro 64 bit. This application was created with the assistance of ollama_launcher, ollama, Qwen3-coder, online AI resources, and Visual Studio Code. The Installer exe was made with Nullsoft scriptable install system. It also contains my personally written code. It's released under the GPL 3.0 license. It now has a bunch of options. One being the choice of characters.

Based on user choices, "snow flakes" fall from the top of the screen. flakes is based on FuzzyFlakes for Linux and has a configuration utility that makes it highly customizable.

This program draws randomly about 100 types of fractals. Program realized on C++ (as screensaver and as standard window application) and on Java (as applet and image store application).