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?
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?
Welcome to using Wayland, where no one cares what you want and it’s out of scope and actually you’re out of line for wanting it, get with the times!
You can graft xscreensaver in but the extent to which it will work is wholly dependent on your environment. Wayland provides the protocols, not implementations, so you may be running something that surfaces hooks for making xscreensaver work and you may not.
Lest this just be about showing pretty pictures, there have been numerous times when some desktop environment has decided to staple the pretty pictures part of xscreensaver on to its own locker (most famously to get matching window decorations when the computer asks for a password) and ended up with very funny bugs (most famously the “smash keyboard to bypass lock”).