Users? The whole community ditched xscreensaver in favor of a bunch of screen “lockers” that just pass the buck for maintaining any level of security off to the user interface and window decoration library of the day!
Literally every distro broke compatibility with the only screen locking program that can’t be defeated by, and I’m not exaggerating one iota here, smashing a bunch of buttons on the keyboard at once.
All this happened after the maintainer of that package noticed they were in violation of his license/copyright/terms or whatever, explained that linking it to a bunch of weird shit was a security issue and asked them not to do what they were doing.
It won't or at least not in the same way. Wayland only defines a protocol for screen lockers, and how you implement it is up to the programs themselves.
I still install XScreenSaver on my Wayland system just to look at the amusing visuals from time to time. Many of the screensavers accept command line parameters. You can make the Lava Lite zenburn themed if you want.
To be honest, I don't think I've even seen screen saver since like 2008. Although, it might be fun to set up something like hollywood as screen saver at work. I wonder how long before someone accuses me of hacking our network.
I love that I looked up xscreensaver and the wikipedia page on it is like 10% explaining the history of this program and 90% ragging on major distros for dropping it.
Users? The whole community ditched xscreensaver in favor of a bunch of screen “lockers” that just pass the buck for maintaining any level of security off to the user interface and window decoration library of the day!
Literally every distro broke compatibility with the only screen locking program that can’t be defeated by, and I’m not exaggerating one iota here, smashing a bunch of buttons on the keyboard at once.
All this happened after the maintainer of that package noticed they were in violation of his license/copyright/terms or whatever, explained that linking it to a bunch of weird shit was a security issue and asked them not to do what they were doing.
Not really whole community, sizable chunk is now using Wayland with their own screen lockers.
Oh well I’m sure the exact thing won’t happen on wayland.
It won't or at least not in the same way. Wayland only defines a protocol for screen lockers, and how you implement it is up to the programs themselves.
I remain skeptical.
I still install XScreenSaver on my Wayland system just to look at the amusing visuals from time to time. Many of the screensavers accept command line parameters. You can make the Lava Lite zenburn themed if you want.
To be honest, I don't think I've even seen screen saver since like 2008. Although, it might be fun to set up something like hollywood as screen saver at work. I wonder how long before someone accuses me of hacking our network.
I love that I looked up xscreensaver and the wikipedia page on it is like 10% explaining the history of this program and 90% ragging on major distros for dropping it.