On X11 systems, This program is also a fully-functional VT100 emulator! Written by Jamie Zawinski. Name=Phosphor Exec=/usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -root TryExec=/usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor Comment=Draws a simulation of an old terminal, with large pixels and long-sustain phosphor. The default is some Ubuntu feed, which is boring and lame. I copied the Phosphor saver, since I like it and it can be pointed to a web server or any other source of text. So the easiest thing to do is either to edit this directly, or copy the original and start working on the copy. desktop files is a ‘hack,’ or ‘screensaver theme.’ This is where each screensaver is configured - namely, each configuration of a screensaver is stored. desktop files in the /usr/share/applications/screensavers folder.Įach of these. From what I can tell, you’ll find a lot of. Then I read up on editing these files by hand. Xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra $> sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra For whatever reason, the GNOME developers, in their ‘infinite’ wisdom, decided to can xscreensaver in favor of gnome-screensaver - and they left out any way to configure a particular screensaver (for instance, choosing a folder besides your ~/Pictures folder for a slideshow).Īfter combing the web for a while, I found that gnome-screensaver supports most of the xscreensaver packages, so I installed these: I was trying to configure a particular screensaver in Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. This may not be the best way to do this, but it’s the way I found.