XScreenSaver

XScreenSaver - jwz.org / man

some distros, notably Debian, distribute a version of XScreenSaver that is years out of date. This is bad and they should feel bad.

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add it to a .xscreensaver config - wasn’t able to generate one with xscreensaver-config???

Building

# install dependencies
$ sudo apt install intltool libxi-dev libgtk-3-dev libxml2-dev

# configure
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr  # check the output of this command for missing dependancy

# compile
$ make -j 12                 # as much as you can

# install
$ sudo make install
$ make clean
Written on June 15, 2025, Last update on June 15, 2025
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