[Techtalk] Screensavers on Linux

[Val Henson]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:23:11PM +0800, Sujita Purushothaman wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>         Does anyone know how to write screensavers for Linux?
> I'm looking to write a simple screensaver that would display
> jpg files in sequence . I think the available screensavers aren't
> attractive!

Maybe this isn't what you want, :) but it's extremely easy to add
screensavers to xscreensaver.  They are referred to as "hacks" and if
you download the xscreensaver source, you'll get some documentation
and a heckload of examples.

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

Enjoy!

-VAL