Installing screensavers in ubuntu
Background The Gnome 3 comes with the old gnome-screensaver which is just a blank screen. XScreenSaver XScreenSaver is a collection of about two hundred free screensavers for Unix , Mac OS X and iOS . It was created by Jamie Zawinski in 1992 and is still maintained by him . The free software and open source Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System (such as Linux and FreeBSD ) use XScreenSaver almost exclusively. On those systems, there are two parts to XScreenSaver: the collection of screen savers; and the framework for blanking and locking the screen. In recent years, some Linux distributions have been using the gnome-screensaver or kscreensaver screen-blanking frameworks by default instead of the framework included with XScreenSaver. They still depend on the XScreenSaver collection of screen savers, which is over 90% of the package with the exception of gnome-screensaver version 3 and onward, which has dropped support for screensavers completely, s...