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.

This project intends to promote the use of KDE and KDE-based applications on/for Fedora™ Core and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® through the creation and distribution of unofficial core and 3rd-party KDE RPM packages.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.)

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 small mouse gesture based authentication program and screen locker.

Game of Life Screensaver

Experience the stunning beauty of Yosemite National Park with this awe-inspiring Mac OS X Screensaver.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.