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.

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

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.

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.

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

WorkImitate - is a screen saver that simulates the work in some development environments (IDE): - Microsoft Visual Studio 11; - Microsoft Visual Studio 2008; - Microsoft Visual C++ 6; - Metrowerks CodeWarrior; - IntelliJ IDEA; - Escipse. You don't need to install this IDE - just configure screen saver - it has own virtual interface.

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

WallSwap is a free, open-source wallpaper rotator for Windows Vista and XP. Similar to Windows 7's wallpaper changer and Firefox's Personas Rotator, WallSwap will allow users the ability to have they own wallpaper slideshow.

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.

Offers a drag & drop interface for creating screensavers in Unixes with ease similiar to Quartz Composer on the Mac.

A simulation of balls bouncing in a room in n >= 2 dimensions for educational purpose or usable as screensaver. Runs under UNIX/Linux, needs the Qt GUI Library and OpenGL.

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.

Desktop program and a screensaver for cellular automatas simulation.

A screensaver that displays an accurate 3D clock when run.

OpenGL Screen Saver for Windows, featuring an animated, self-scrambling 3x3x3 cube puzzle. Tested on WIndows Vista and Windows 7.

Cubes is yet another OpenGL screen saver. The effect is not unlike psychedelic cubist guts twisting and churning on-screen. Screen savers are always fun, for about a minute and a half.

Simple Windows OpenGL based screen saver to display a moving 3D model from a file. The screensaver supports 3DS file formats. Movement speed, rotation, direction, and other properties can be customized.

Delirium is a screensaver control and configuration utility for RISC OS.

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

Digital rain screensaver. Similar to "Matrix code" from trilogy "The Matrix".

Eternity 2 puzzle heuristic solver is distributed computing project trying to solve 2 million dollars puzzle by using heuristic algorithms. Project development is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Eternity 2 website: http://uk.eternityii.com/

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

A small mouse gesture based authentication program and screen locker.