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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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how to make a screen saver preview in Delphi?

I want my screensaver appears in the screensaver preview box?
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android.os.BinderProxy cannot be cast to android.service.dreams.DreamService$DreamServiceWrapper

I'm struggling with exception Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{net.hubalek.android.apps.reborn.pro/android.service.dreams.DreamActivity}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.os.BinderProxy cannot…
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Windows UWP as Screensaver?

On Windows 10, can a UWP be launched as a screensaver? If so, how do you register your app with the OS such that it gets listed in the screensaver dialog? (Windows 8 store apps cannot be screensavers. I cannot find any information on UWPs)
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You cannot use the screensaver with this version of OS X

So here's my current problem. I'm attempting to create a screensaver, all I'm doing is setting a background color like so, public override func drawRect(rect: NSRect) { super.drawRect(rect) let color = NSColor(red:0.33, green:0.78,…
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Xcode screensaver with openGL

I am currently simply trying to build a simple screen saver in xcode 3.2 on osx 10.6.3 using an openGL view as described in this article: http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000089.php anyways even if I use the exact same code from the example all I…
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Detect when screensaver activates with Cocoa

Is there a way to trigger an action when the Mac OS X screensaver activates or when it goes to sleep (preferably using cocoa)?
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Changing xscreensaver to gnome-screensaver

I'm using openSUSE 13.1 with Xfce 4.10. I'd like to make a lock screen more pretty. I read that I can remove xscreensaver and install gnome-screensaver instead and I did it. When I try to run it (using command gnome-screensaver) then I get message…
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Windows screensaver from HTML/JS

I've an html page without any external includes with some inline CSS3 animations and JS timers. Is it possible to convert a simple html file to a screensaver file, which can be further used as a screensaver on my windows and mac desktops? I mean a…
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Discover the current user's screensaver timeout either programmatically or via commandline on a mac

Does anyone know how to discover what the timeout is for the screensaver of the current user on a mac. I would prefer a programmatic method if possible but am also happy to parse the output of a command line utility. I am already doing this with…
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Disable and Enable Screen Saver in Windows 7

I have an application than disables the screen saver temporarily in order to run a slide show. I use this to turn it on or off: i = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, active, Nothing, SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE) This works fine in XP. In…
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Does a screensaver still have to be installed into System32?

Back in my Delphi days, I wrote several screensavers - each was a single executable that was dropped into the System32 folder, where the Windows XP Display control panel saw it and made it available. All good. I'm now writing a significantly more…
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How to convert a command line string to hwnd in C++?

I want to create a screen saver in C++ using OpenGL. The command line sent to my app for previewing the screen saver in a small window contains a number which is the hwnd of the small monitor window in screen saver control panel applet. how can I…
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Making a corner of the desktop activate screensaver

I am trying to write a simple application to activate my screensaver when the mouse in at the top right corner of the screen. I have found an answer to controlling the screensaver from C# however I am having trouble working out how to do a "hot…
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Block screensaver

Could you provide simple approach to block screensaver and prevent locking computer. I need this for running automation tests and I have no rights to change this on local machine due to global computer locking company policy.
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How to get when the last touch on the screen happened?

I have an activity and I have a thread that runs when the activity is started. The thread call one method called getTimeOfLastEvent, public long getTimeOfLastEvent(){ return 0; } I want this method to return me for example milliseconds from the…
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