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Blanking of the screen or filling with moving images when computer not in use.

Programs initially designed to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images or patterns when the computer is not in use.

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How can I change or install screensavers?

I want to change the default screen saver in Ubuntu 11.10/12.04. On 11.04 I just did a sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod And then I could change it in the control center -> screen saver options. Now there…
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ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bit - screen goes black every 15 seconds

I am completely at a loss. On a new installation of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bit my laptop screen has started to go black every 15 seconds. If I move the mouse or click then the display returns (I do not have to log in). Because this happens every 15…
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Screen off animation similar to Android Gingerbread?

Just curious, but I love the look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv1p4TvRw4 Is there something similar to this for Ubuntu, when shutting down, or logging out, or even when the screen goes to sleep?
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How can I add screensavers?

I guess some of the screensavers in Ubuntu are nice. But I'd really like more. Is there a website with screensavers for Ubuntu? Also, I am particularly looking for a screensaver that looks a bit like Mac's ribbon ribbons of light thing.
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Determine what process is keeping my screensaver from activating

I see several questions on how to stop the screen from blanking, but I have the opposite problem. Ubuntu 20.10 (but it's been an issue for over a year), i3wm, many firefox tabs with (among other things) non-running youtube tabs, embedded youtube…
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I want to see the electric sheep "screensaver" on my ubuntu boxes

I have a number of laptops and PCs running in my home, generally running Ubuntu 14.04 with the gnome window manager I used to love having the Electric Sheep screen saver, I understand the Gnome people have decided the idea of screen savers is no…
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Disable Screensaver While Using Hulu Desktop

There is a file in your home folder that allows you to configure some settings for Hulu Desktop: ~/.huludesktop. It has an option for scripts to run to dis/en-able the screensaver. I would like to write a script to be called by Hulu while watching…
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xscreensaver to load at startup?

Greetings I am running UBUNTU 12.04 and logging in on UBUNTU 3D. Wondering if anyone knows the definitive answer to getting xscreensaver to load at start-up? I have removed gnome screensaver, installed xscreensaver with no results. I have tried…
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Where are the screensaver settings in Unity?

Why is there no screensaver in the default installation of Ubuntu 13.04 ? I've found that it can be installed afterwards, but I don't understand why this feature is not present by default. Has the concept of screensaver been replaced something else…
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Custom text screensaver

Thinking about what would be useful to display in a screensaver, I realized that it would be nice to know how long the screensaver has been running. gnome-screensaver-command --time takes care of that. Now, how can I create a simple screensaver…
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Set Boinc as a screensaver

I have a BOINC Manager installed contributing to World Community Grid. Is there a way to set this to run as a screensaver visually in Ubuntu?
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How to unlock screensaver over ssh on ubuntu 21.04?

I want to unlock the black screen over ssh (screensaver). I have a desktop ubuntu 21.04 and I want to log into this via ssh and unlock the screensaver. I tried xdotool in a script: #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:0 xdotool type "1234" and also…
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Play video as screensaver

Is there any way to play a video as a screensaver?
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How do I change my screensaver in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

I've read the answers to this question for versions of Ubuntu, but it seems many changes were done to this. A duplicate question has only spaces and no answers. This should be very simple. Any ideas please?
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Photo Gallery Screensaver

How can I set up a screensaver to randomly display images from one folder from the harddrive. This was extremely easy in Windows, but I can't figure out how to set it up in Ubuntu.
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