Hi

Why there is still no BOINC screensaver for KDE after several years of BOINC development?


Atalanttore

There is a BOINC screen saver included in BOINC from v6.10 or 6.12;
That it may not run on your system can be because of different versions of X and DMs have different requirements as far as screensavers go. Different rules for KDE vs. Gnome vs. everything else.

But as you can see, in the source code there is a screen saver for X11: This is a XScreenSaver compatible BOINC screensaver for Unix/X11. Whether or not your distro's maintainers use it, is anyone's guess.

And then we're only talking about the screen saver in BOINC. The actual screen saver for projects is their doing, their separate application. You'll have to ask at the project's site(s) about that.

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Let me try to dig out the BOINC screensaver as I happen to have chucked the default Ubuntu and replaced with Xscreensaver, which is currently set to blank and lock screen when idle... and it works, the locking that is. I looked for a BOINC screensaver but was not listed, boing, bouncing cow [appealing to DPC maybe], bubbles [fine graphic]

Not heard of WCG supplying any for Linux SS, but the graphics window from BOINC Manager does run [for WCG]... Clean Water looks nice but not as glossy as on Windows. At without an SS, least I'd then expect would be the moving BOINC square to be available. Any pointer where it's hiding?

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LOL, don't look at me. Not a clue. ;-)
But Dago will be along any second now and tell you... probably. :)

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Where else to refer to, reading the famously [terrifying] manual, per last change, circa June, 2011, there is no SS for Linux.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_screensaver

Maybe there is an alternate linguistic interpretation of the meaning ;-)

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There is a BOINC screen saver included in BOINC from v6.10 or 6.12;

I checked the source code, it's from 6.12 onwards.

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