Open Source Linux Screen Savers

Capri Desktop Companion is a quiet, interactive, and unofficial AI companion for your Windows desktop. She perches on your app windows, talks back, comments on your games, controls your music, and helps you navigate your daily tasks right from your screen. Designed for users who want a lively, immersive, and customizable virtual desktop pet with advanced AI integration. Key Features: Interactive Desktop Companion: Capri sits on your windows, drops onto taskbars, sways to your music, and reacts dynamically to your actions. Voice & Text Chat: Talk to her via text or voice chat, or use wake-word support to bring her to life instantly. Smart PC Assistance: Let her open apps, play or pause music, manage browser tabs, and execute workflow jobs using her own on-screen cursor. Windows may warn you because Capri isn't signed yet. Check your download against SHA256SUMS.tx ⚠️Capri-Setup.exe may not work, try Capri.exe⚠️

This will put snow on your screen whilst you work. You can adjust the speed, amount of snow and the maximum flake size with the options dialogue box that appears for ten seconds before the snow starts to fall.

At rural colleges and similar settings, people form very distinct paths in the snow as they walk across open spaces. This program models that process. The evolving condition of the snow is displayed graphically. Snowpath may be used as a screensaver.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. File QemuSaverOpen-1-10.torrent , the featured download, will fetch the release for you. Versions of these screensavers date back to 2005 when they were featured in an IBM Developerworks article.

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

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.

Game of Life 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.

SaverScreens is a small API that extends the SaverBeans SDK for creating cross-platform screensavers using Java.

Diet BOINC is a no-graphics, lightweight alternative XScreenSaver module for the boinscr screensaver. If the Boinscr module in XScreenSaver is showing a black screen with the words 'boinc not running' or similar, Diet BOINC may be able to replace it with a working alternative. For Linux only Dependencies: - XScreenSaver - BOINC software - Python 2.x Tested in CentOS & Ubuntu Linux. Should work in other Linux if you can run these three items.

Simulation of star movements with great visualizations of flights through star fields.

Space Screensaver brings you the majestic view of travelling through outer space between the various stars in our solar system right on your desktop. Capture the beauty of space and stars of the upper skies without leaving the comfort of your home.

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.