Open Source Linux Screen Savers

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.

Game of Life Screensaver

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

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.

This is screensaver written in C# and uses gdi+ look like Windows 8 lock screen. Multilanguage feature has been added. Tell me if you want to add translation for this project.

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 KDE 4 screensaver that shows an underwater ocean seen with sea creatures. In particular, swimming Baracudas and sharks. A treasure chest lies on the sea floor with a ship wrecked in the background.

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.

This is a Matrix alike 3D OpenGL screen saver for KDE and X11 window system.

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.

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.

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

Program can be used as screensaver, via command line to generate a personalized greeting or interactively to generate in 3D scenes with flowers, flower elements, bouquets or meadows. In screen saver mode flowers are created randomly and moved on the screen. By configuration you can select, what types are displayed - random flowers, bouquets and/or meadows - and the speed of movement. In generation mode you call the program from the command line, providing the type of display, the files to generate (picture only or picture and XML file) and one or two texts used as seeds for random number generation and as text to be placed in the picture. Thus you can create an unique flower greeting. In interactive mode you can build your own flower elements, flowers, bouquets or meadows interactively, modify them, move them, save them and load stored elements, flowers, bouquets, meadows or complete scenes. You can also make a screenshot of the actual display.

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.

Stones is a native Cocoa-Mac OS X full-featured editor for the game of Go. It supports SGF and will support XML formats. I also features a unique Go Screen Saver for Mac OS X.

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.

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.

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

iMate is a win32 / Linux desktop mate programme. It offers more features than the already existing desktop mate (AI, learning capacity, growth and limited lifeTime, third party tools to add new behaviour, ...).

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.