Are there at least some plans to implement screensavers into Wayland? Is there any way to override Wayland’s restrictions and set a screensaver up?

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Hadn’t thought about it before since i don’t have a need for them, but yeah i think that could work with swaylock, cause i’m pretty sure you can configure it in such a way that the static indicator isn’t on the screen the whole time. I don’t know if it can do video files, but you might be able to use a gif instead. Only downside would be that you still have to enter your password to get rid of it again, which isn’t typical for a screensaver i think.

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      14 hours ago

      I’m just confused as some comments seem to suggest it’s not possible. There are already idle daemons like swayidle, so you just need to have an idle daemon execute a program that plays an animation and exits when it receives any input? I don’t know of any such programs, but I don’t see how it’d be impossible.