Open Source Linux Screen Savers

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Two programs, one in Java and one in Javascript, which display a configurable graphical countdown timer on a computer. Useful for testing situations and short-range anticipated events.

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.

Digital Clock Screen Saver based on a simple Flash effect creates a 3D digital clock that is used as a screen saver. Very light file size and easy to install. Requires Flash 8 or above.

Two Linux distributions which run as screensavers for Microsoft Windows. One contains educational software aimed roughly at UK Key Stage 2 (8-11 years old); the other contains many open source games. To use, 'extract all' the zip files, run the installer 'exe's, and then select either the 'fr2' or 'gk2' screensaver. The git repository also contains a script which will build the material to run under Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2. These screensavers were featured by the Linux Foundation here https://www.linux.com/featured/linux-as-a-screensaver-for-windows-the-gift-of-open-source-games-and-sboms-for-the-holidays/ and were mentioned in the OpenSource.com 2022 gift list here https://opensource.com/article/22/11/gift-ideas-open-source-enthusiasts. The release1 directory contains the two screensavers described above. The release0 directory contains earlier versions of the screensavers, some dating back to 2005 when they were featured in an IBM Developerworks article.

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

A project created by Corodeanu Lucian for viewing web-cam and manipulating it. It's purpose is to bring web-cam to life on your monitor while having a few good features to your accomplish your needs. Only needs .NET Framework 3.0 or above no install only extract files.

PhScrs is a library-framework like xscreensaver, but developed for QNX Photon. It includes a common shared library for development, and screensavers.

SkyRide is an OpenGL RSS screensaver initially inspired by the MacOSX "RSS Visualizer", but more configurable. Built using open source cross-platform libraries, it should be portable to (at least) Linux, MacOSX and Windows.

An application I designed with animated fish swimming in a tank. The fish swim with in the window boundaries. If they reach/touch the wall they turn another direction. User can specify the number of fish and the speed. The background image can be swa

AutoBrowse - The most creative screensaver of the world! Enter any search-word and any search-engine (default is google.de), and AutoBrowse will surf the net for you. Enioy!

This project has moved to GitHub, at https://github.com/deragon/autopoweroff/ Autopoweroff is a daemon for the Linux operating system that shuts down the server or run any other command at a specific time if no other workstations on the LAN requires it services or if any user is working on it . A GUI is provided for configuration. Useful for home servers.

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.

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.

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.

ChBg2 is desktop background manager which allows you to exchange periodicaly your wallpaper. With same functionality you can use it as simple screensaver or xscreensaver hack. This is the new version ported to Gtk2 and Imlib2 libraries.

Create a cross themed wallpaper by adjusting the sliders then pressing the camera icon. Change background or particle shape. A free live wallpaper version is available for Android via the Play Store ("ColorCross Free".) The video is of that live wallpaper in action. Done in 9 events in Construct 2.

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.

CruiseSaver is a screen saver for CruiseControl. Each of your CruiseControl projects is represented by a floating orb. Color and labels indicate the projects current build status.