[ILUG] Linux Screensavers

[Ken Guest]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:12:54AM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> I've googled a bit for this and came across xScreensaver, but that's not 
> really what I'm after.
> 
> What I need to know is the format\extension of the screensavers ie: 
> win=scr, Linux=?

Like with any executable on Linux, screensavers aren't required to have a
an extension.
> 
> This is on my FC3
> 
> I tried "man screensaver" no man entry
> I did "locate screensaver"
> 

Screensavers themselves are located in /usr/lib/xscreensaver:

kguest:~$ locate xjack
/usr/share/man/man6/xjack.6x.gz
/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/xjack.xml
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/xjack
kguest:~$ file /usr/lib/xscreensaver/xjack
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/xjack: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
kguest:~$ 

All the screensavers on my laptop are compiled executables.
There's documentation available at http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ which
should help :)

HTH

k.

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