xscreensaver

Hack: Enabling Unicode in XScreenSaver

When I tried to display Arabic text in some of the hacks, like noseguy, I failed miserably. Panicked, I posted to the Ubuntu forum asking for help. With a little help from my friends, and some code digging, I found that XScreenSaver hacks are not Unicode-ready at all.

XScreenSaver is info-protoart

If you're looking for folk expressions of infoart (and who wouldn't), check out XScreenSaver. This wonderfully simple system is the standard screensaver on Linux, and it shows how the stock Windows screensavers are an insult to the genre.

Each screensaver is humbly called a hack, and each hack is a small program that displays an interesting animation on the screen. Interesting is the key word here, and probably an understatement. Most people who are in the room become mesmerized by them - my cat too! I wish I was such a hacker.

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