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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

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

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.).

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Garshneblanker is a complete modular screen blanking package. Main goal is a port to AROS.

Java Slideshow is a platform independent image viewer especially for huge collections. It provides an easy command line interface, supports tagging and view by category, zoom, move and has some file manager functions like delete file or find duplicates.

KISS, the Keep-It-Simple-Stupid Image Screensaver. A practical exercise in win32 and x-window image display screen savers.