Talk:XScreenSaver

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"such as Linux"[edit]

I put Linux in because there's a passing chance the passing reader will have actually heard of it - it's there as an example of an "open source Unix-like" system. If you still consider this "gratuitous," I'm sure we can discuss the matter - David Gerard 12:25, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

What you had before, where you didn't mention names at all, was fine. I think there is a problem in keeping other names out just becuase people "haven't heard of it". Dysprosia 22:26, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
The problem I saw was the phrase is meaningless - it was putting in the name with some brand recognition as an example. (I vastly prefer FreeBSD to Linux for my personal use, btw, but think I can tell including an example from including something for advocacy.)
The name could be removed, but then the article is made less clear to the reader who doesn't already know what we're talking about. - David Gerard 22:28, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
But it still is providing "preferential treatment" of sorts... it's not quite POV but it's not quite neutral either, if you get what I mean. Perhaps we can work out some sort of wording. Dysprosia 22:32, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
It's "preferential treatment" only in that Linux is famous in the outside world and FreeBSD, love it as I might, just isn't. (Workplace conversation: "You don't have Windows? You run Leenux or something?" "FreeBSD." "Oh, that's a sort of Leenux, isn't it." These are IT guys!) Saying "like Linux" instead of "open source Unix-like" is a bit GNU/Linux - it rubs BSD advocates up the wrong way, but no-one else really cares, nor, really, should they. I'd love a better way of saying it, though, yes. - David Gerard 23:12, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
How about leveraging the fact that some Unix-like systems (going off the Unix-like article), such as Darwin and the Hurd (to my knowledge), do not use XScreenSaver (Darwin, not at least when in tandem with OS X, that is)? Otherwise, I have to think about it a little harder... Dysprosia 23:16, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Some hacks[edit]

I added a brief list of some of the XScreensaver hacks (largely at random, I confess). I figure such a list has the potential of hooking casual visitors into the wikipedia - so they come and read about the screensaver, but it links off into the various obscure corners of maths and popular culture that the hacks depict. I'll probably add some more hacks later, and anyone with a better grasp of math than me is more than welcome to add the exotic math hacks that I don't pretend to recognise. -- John Fader 17:04, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Nitpicking[edit]

I've had a look at the BSOD screensaver picture over at the German Wikipedia. The screensaver is wrong: The "Guru meditation" never appeared in the "Insert Workbench disk" when you first booted up the Amiga. You had to actually load Workbench, or some other program, to get the chance to see a Guru meditation. JIP | Talk 15:17, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

As a former Amiga user, I actually saw Guru meditation right on "Insert Disk" image of Amiga ROM. It could happen if you have memory errors or actually a memory resident virus which hooks itself to startup routine. As you may guess, these are horrible reasons for guru meditation so I think that is why as the concept of screensaver is showing some horrible situations for fun.

Full list[edit]

Here is the full list from 5.02:

  • Anemone -
  • Anemotaxis -
  • Ant -
  • AntInspect -
  • AntMaze -
  • AntSpotlight -
  • Apollonian -
  • Apple2 -
  • Atlantis -
  • Attraction -
  • Atunnel -
  • Barcode -
  • Blaster -
  • BlinkBox -
  • BlitSpin -
  • BlockTube -
  • Boing -
  • Bouboule -
  • BouncingCow -
  • Boxed -
  • BoxFit -
  • Braid -
  • BSOD -
  • Bubble3D -
  • Bubbles -
  • Bumps -
  • Cage -
  • Carousel -
  • CCurve -
  • Celtic -
  • Circuit -
  • CloudLife -
  • Compass -
  • Coral -
  • Crackberg -
  • Critical -
  • Crystal -
  • Cube21 -
  • Cubenetic -
  • CubeStorm -
  • Cynosure -
  • DangerBall -
  • DecayScreen -
  • Deco -
  • Deluxe -
  • Demon -
  • Discrete -
  • Distort -
  • DNAlogo -
  • Drift -
  • Endgame -
  • Engine -
  • Epicycle -
  • Eruption -
  • Euler2D -
  • Extrusion -
  • FadePlot -
  • Fiberlamp -
  • Fireworkx -
  • Flag -
  • Flame -
  • FlipFlop -
  • FlipScreen3D -
  • FlipText -
  • Flow -
  • FluidBalls -
  • FlyingToasters -
  • FontGlide -
  • Forest -
  • FuzzyFlakes -
  • Galaxy -
  • Gears -
  • GFlux -
  • GLBlur -
  • Gleidescope -
  • GLForestFire -
  • GLHanoi -
  • GLKnots -
  • GLMatrix -
  • GLPlanet -
  • GLSchool -
  • GLSlideshow -
  • GLSnake -
  • GLText -
  • Goop -
  • Grav -
  • Greynetic -
  • Halftone -
  • Halo -
  • Helix -
  • Hopalong -
  • HyperBall -
  • HyperCube -
  • HyperTorus -
  • IFS -
  • IMSMap -
  • Interaggregate -
  • Interference -
  • Intermomentary -
  • JigglyPuff -
  • Jigsaw -
  • Juggle -
  • Juggler3D -
  • Julia -
  • Kaleidescope -
  • Klein -
  • Kumppa -
  • Lament -
  • Laser -
  • Lavalite -
  • Lightning -
  • Lisa -
  • Lissie -
  • LMorph -
  • Loop -
  • Maze -
  • MemScroller -
  • Menger -
  • MetaBalls -
  • MirrorBlob -
  • Mismunch -
  • Moebius -
  • Moire -
  • Moire2 -
  • Molecule -
  • Morph3D -
  • Mountain -
  • Munch -
  • NerveRot -
  • Noof -
  • NoseGuy -
  • Pacman -
  • Pedal -
  • Penetrate -
  • Penrose -
  • Petri -
  • Phosphor -
  • Piecewise -
  • Pinion -
  • Pipes -
  • Polyhedra -
  • Polyominoes -
  • Polytopes -
  • Pong -
  • PopSquares -
  • Providence -
  • Pulsar -
  • Pyro -
  • Qix -
  • Queens -
  • RDbomb -
  • Ripples -
  • Rocks -
  • Rorschach -
  • Rotor -
  • RotZoomer -
  • Rubik -
  • SBalls -
  • ShadeBobs -
  • Sierpinski -
  • Sierpinski3D -
  • SlideScreen -
  • Slip -
  • Sonar -
  • SpeedMine -
  • Sphere -
  • Spheremonics -
  • Spiral -
  • Spotlight -
  • Sproingies -
  • Squiral -
  • Stairs -
  • Starfish -
  • StarWars -
  • StonerView -
  • Strange -
  • Substrate -
  • Superquadrics -
  • Swirl -
  • T3D -
  • Tangram -
  • Thornbird -
  • TimeTunnel -
  • TopBlock -
  • Triangle -
  • Truchet -
  • Twang -
  • Vermiculate -
  • Vines -
  • Wander -
  • WebCollage -
  • WhirlWindWarp -
  • Whirlygig -
  • Worm -
  • Wormhole -
  • XAnalogTV -
  • XFlame -
  • XJack -
  • XLyap -
  • XMatrix -
  • XRaySwarm -
  • XSpirograph -
  • Zoom -

Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I put it in columns to save space, hoping you don't mind. —Tamfang (talk) 22:14, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I do mind. What are you going to do about it?