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Are the screensavers gone from Plasma now?

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:28 am
by Grogan
I can't find the screensaver module anywhere, it looks like that's gone now?

The only answers I can find are "Why do you want that?" with admonishments that screensavers aren't necessary. I know that... and as far as I'm concerned, them breathing oxygen is not necessary to me either. Those people piss me off.

I installed xscreensaver just to test some screensavers (testing the virgl driver) so I don't care, but that's shitty if they took away the screensavers just to lock your screen and use power management.

I actually have enough hardware acceleration to run those 3D screensavers (the point of the test) and also I wanted to see this again :lol:

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Re: Are the screensavers gone from Plasma now?

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:56 am
by Zema Bus
I think they were already gone when I first started using Plasma 5 back in 2018 I think.

Re: Are the screensavers gone from Plasma now?

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:01 am
by Zema Bus
I did a quick search, someone on Reddit said Plasma 4.14 was the last release to include screensavers.

Re: Are the screensavers gone from Plasma now?

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:41 am
by Grogan
Ahh, I guess it was Trinity then, I thought I saw them in KDE more recently.