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.

Explore procedural worlds on your GPU. Worlds are defined by GLSL programs that map XYZ coordinates to the distance to the nearest surface. Design your own worlds, modify parameters in realtime and render hires videos of your recorded journey.

Stay Awake allows to temporarily disable the screensaver, going to sleep or hibernation mode and everything else that is started automatically when the system is idle. This is very useful if you want to watch a movie and you have to move the mouse every few minutes to avoid the screensaver. It can be also useful if you would like to disable the screensaver, but it's not possible because of some sort of security policy.

A 3D matrix screensaver based on The Matrix Reloaded. Supports widescreen setups, and can be run on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, BSD and many other UNIX based operating systems.

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.

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.

winKeyLock utility enables to lock computer access quickly. Disables the Windows keyboard and mouse so a DVD/Movie can be watched by a small child without changing anything! During lock the current screen stays transparent not like during screen server.

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.

Lazyread auto-scrolls files or command output to the screen. Change scroll modes, scroll-speed, colors, pause, search, etc. Render text, HTML, PDF, gzip, tar, zip, ar, bzip2, MS-Word, nroff, binary, directories, .deb, .so, .rpm, piped output and more

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!

Eye candy showing parallel Conway's Life games in the bit planes of the screen, using boolean BitBlt operations. (Independently rediscovered algorithm given already in Smalltalk-80 Blue Book, by the inventors of BitBlt.)

A port of jwz's xmatrix module for xscreensaver to Win32. The goal is to provide a Windows version of this excellent screensaver for those of us unfortunate to have to deal with Windows during the day but still want a cool screensaver.

Port of the juggle screensaver from linux to windows.

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

A screensaver that emphasizes on the fact that a screensaver should save your screen from displaying the same picture for a prolonged period of time. The idea of filling the screen with a color, and changing it periodically will be capitalized upon.

A silly thing I've wanted to do for a long time. Configure Pop-Up uses several different Parameter Entry methods (ScrollBars, Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, etc.).

Boxxx Engine is a very simple 2D engine written purely in C language. This code uses BGI graphic library and is compiled with Borland Turbo C 2.0. The goal of this project is to come up with a physically complex yet simple in principle 2D engine. The release is without any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.

Coverama is a theme for Gnome Screensaver. It shows album cover arts (or other pictures) with a 3D rotation animation, randomly choosing pictures from a specified folder.

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.

Just another screensaver to display panoramic pictures, but uses DirectX to scroll the pictures as smooth as possible.

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

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

Improved version of attraction forked off Xscreensaver-3.27. It offers fixes + new features and should be of interest to anyone with a math or physics bent. 1.0 appears in Xscreensaver 3.33 and up.

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/

This is a screensaver for Mac OS X based on the ancient Satori screensaver in After Dark 2.0. It is also very similar to the swirl xlock screensaver.