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A screensaver is a visual program that runs after a period of inactivity.

A screensaver is a visual program that runs after a period of inactivity. It's purpose is to prevent damage to a visual output device by a static image being "burned" into it.

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WPF: Multiple screens

I'm writing a screensaver in WPF. I have the screensaver working, however, it only displays on my main monitor. Is there a way to "black out" or draw graphics to additional monitors when the user has multiple displays? I've done some searching…
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creating a Windows screensaver with Python?

Screensavers in Windows are just regular executables being ran if idle for certain amount of time. They are the same ".exe" files, only with extension (renamed) ".scr". To use a ".scr" file as your screensaver, you right-click on it and choose…
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How to set up OSX screen saver configuration sheet?

I'm working on a screen saver for OSX (Mountain Lion) and I'm having trouble setting up the configuration sheet (so when the user clicks "Screen Saver Options..." within System Preferences, my options appear). There seem to be only two or three…
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Strange lifecycle behavior in my Screen Saver App

I just developed a screen saver app and I found a strange behavior in its lifecycle. My work flow is like this: start my RegisterService, where I call registerReceiver method to register a BroadcastReceiver, which can receive…
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Can't load images on mac screensaver release build (it works on Xcode debug build)

I got this mac screensaver example from here. I changed it to show image instead of textField. The problem is this: it can show any Xcode objects such as textView. textField, Button and etc... but it cant load image on imageView. (it can load image…
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How to debug logon screensaver in Win7?

I have a .Net 2.0 WinForms app that I'm trying to use as a logon screensaver (64-bit Win7Pro). It runs just fine from the command line when I'm logged in and as my screensaver. However, it exits immediately when run as a logon screensaver. I know…
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How to disable the screen saver/display sleep on Mac

Is there a way to disable the screen saver and the display sleep with cocoa?
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Ubuntu, lock screen but do not screensave

When I do not use my graphical session anymore, the screensaver automatically lock it and power off the screen to save energy. I want it to keep locking my session but not to power off the screen, is it possible ? I use Ubuntu 18.04 with default…
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How to set screensaver thumbnail in Settings panel on Mac?

I'm making a custom *.saver application, and I would like to add my own thumbnail to show up above the name of screensaver (the ladybug pictures in the left column). How do I do that?
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MacOSX screensaver not loading due to Library not loaded: @rpath/libswiftAppKit.dylib

We have a working Mac OS X screensaver as a standalone Xcode project, but we needed to have it as a target in another Xcode project that also contains a related app. I added a target for a screensaver, copied the code, added to that target, etc,…
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Do Swift screensavers work in Mac OS X before Yosemite?

I rewrote the screen saver template that Xcode generates from Objective-C into Swift and when I try to load it I get this message: You cannot use the BlahBlah screensaver with this version of MacOSX. Please contact the vendor to get a new version…
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C#: Retrieve Names of Installed Screen Savers

I want to be able to show basically the same list that the Windows Screen Saver dialog shows, with the name of each screen saver. The problem I've run into however is that the names that show up in the drop down list on the dialog don't seem to…
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Building a Screensaver for XP using VC++ 2008

I'm attempting to compile a screensaver using Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition SP1 on Windows XP. I get a runtime error: "The procedure entry point ChangeWindowMessageFilter() could not be located in the dynamic link library USER32.dll." As far as I…
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Hints and tips for writing a screensaver using xscreensaver?

I have been doing some light OpenGL programming for a couple of months and now I want to write a screensaver using the xscreensaver library. I saw How to develop linux screen saver before asking this but I think that particular question is not…
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Inhibit screensaver with Python

What's the better cross-DE way to disable the screensaver in Linux? I found something here but it's only for gnome-screensaver. I'm wondering if there's any way to simulate a keystroke or some X.Org API to disable screensaver activation.
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