Open Source Linux Screen Savers
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View 71 business solutionsBrowse free open source Screen Savers and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Screen Savers by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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.
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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.
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Autopoweroff
Automatically shutdown/suspend a computer when conditions are met.
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. -
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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
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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.
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wakefull
screensaver and powersaver blocker (like caffeine)
Wakefull, like Caffeine, keeps your screen awake by blocking screen/power savers. The main difference from Caffeine is that Wakefull gives you (the user) access to the scripts being run - so you can adapt it for whatever environment you are using. This was developed for a system where Caffeine was not readily available. -
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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.
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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.
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Clock Saver - Clock Screensaver
Clock Screensaver
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. -
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PhScrs is a library-framework like xscreensaver, but developed for QNX Photon. It includes a common shared library for development, and screensavers.
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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
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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.
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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!
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Offers a drag & drop interface for creating screensavers in Unixes with ease similiar to Quartz Composer on the Mac.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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A screensaver that displays an accurate 3D clock when run.
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ColorCross
HTML5 Rainbow Spiral Wallpaper Generator (Currently Christian Themed)
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. -
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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.
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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.
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Custom WebBrowser Screensaver
web browser based screensaver or video displayer
Custom WebBrowser Screensaver is a web browser based screensaver that uses HTML and Javascript to display a video.mp4 file fullscreen in the brower. After you supply a video. It can be used to display a video of your choice given the name video.mp4. After the video is started it can be stopped by moving the mouse or pressing a keyboard button. Full source code and MIT licensing provided.
