Hi.

Looking for suggestions for a screen saver for a Pi5 if anyone can advise?

I've tried xscreensaver, but it doesn't work on my system as I'm running Bookworm.

I know most monitors nowadays don't suffer from burn-in, but I have four different devices connected to the same monitor, and it's useful to have a scrolling message identifying which device is currently displaying when I
come back to my desk.

The monitor also switches itself off if it has no input for about 10
minutes, and I don't want that to happen.

There's probably a setting in the monitor's menu that either disables that feature, or at least would allow me to extend the time before it powers
off, but I'd still like a working screen saver for it.

TIA,
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Brian Howlett
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All electronic components run on smoke.
If you let the smoke out, they stop working...

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On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:25:26 GMT, Brian Howlett wrote:

I've tried xscreensaver, but it doesn't work on my system as I'm
running Bookworm.

Looks like Jamie Zawinski has no enthusiasm for supporting Wayland.

Doesn?t mean the actual screensaver modules don?t work. You can still
run them manually, or via your own wrapper script.

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On 2026-01-12 at 04:38 AST, druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

On 11/01/2026 23:25, Brian Howlett wrote:

Hi.

Looking for suggestions for a screen saver for a Pi5 if anyone can advise?

I've tried xscreensaver, but it doesn't work on my system as I'm running
Bookworm.

Configure it to use X11 rather than Wayland, and it will work, along
with a lot of other things the Wayland developers insist you don't need.

Was that "Wayland developer" or "Wayland apologist" ? :-)

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On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:06:27 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:

Was that "Wayland developer" or "Wayland apologist" ? :-)

More importantly, given Jamie Zawinski is now supporting Wayland,
which kind is he?

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On 2026-01-13 at 19:35 AST, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:06:27 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:

Was that "Wayland developer" or "Wayland apologist" ? :-)

More importantly, given Jamie Zawinski is now supporting Wayland,
which kind is he?

Maybe "Wayland hostage" ?

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On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:57:20 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:

On 2026-01-13 at 19:35 AST, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:06:27 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:

Was that "Wayland developer" or "Wayland apologist" ? :-)

More importantly, given Jamie Zawinski is now supporting Wayland,
which kind is he?

Maybe "Wayland hostage" ?

Who is holding him, and how?

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On 2026-01-16 at 23:34 AST, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:57:20 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:

On 2026-01-13 at 19:35 AST, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:06:27 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:

Was that "Wayland developer" or "Wayland apologist" ? :-)

More importantly, given Jamie Zawinski is now supporting Wayland,
which kind is he?

Maybe "Wayland hostage" ?

Who is holding him, and how?

Answers to serious questions in response to a facetious comment are things
I don't have at this point.

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