#Yowindow screensaver for ubuntu install

Then click on the ‘Save’ button and close the windows. Name: You can enter any name here, but let’s just call it the ‘Screensaver Program’.Ĭommand: Copy and paste the below command into this one (don’t change anything).Ĭomment: You can enter a small description here if you like, it’s optional though. And fill the three fields using the below data. Then, click on the ‘Add’ button to create a new startup entry.

For that, from the right top corner of your screen, click on the user-menu and click on the ‘Startup Applications…’ item as shown below. Step 4: Now we have to make sure the xscreensaver is running from the background every time you log into the desktop.

#Yowindow screensaver for ubuntu install

Sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra Step 3: This only will install 3 or 4 basic screensavers, but if you like, you can use the below commands to install a lot of 2D and 3D screensavers as well. Step 2: Now enter the below command to install the ‘xscreensaver’ package. Sudo apt-get autoremove gnome-screensaver For that, open your Terminal window and enter the below command. Step 1: First of all, let’s get rid of the default ‘gnome-screensaver’ that comes with Ubuntu (I’m using Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin). Then again, using a screenasaver that requires a reasonable amount of your computer’s resources (specially some of those 3D ones) might not be a good idea while running on your battery (more resources = more power consumption = shorter battery life), however when running on AC or if you use a desktop computer or if you just bloody fancy having one, then you can easily enable those screensavers in Ubuntu Linux with ease nonetheless :).

Now to be honest, I don’t know much about this package, and ironically it’s called ‘gnome-screensaver’, but other than locking and dimming the screen, it cannot execute a screensever (yuk! :D). It’s a screensaver program that has few built in screensavers (including some third-party created beautiful looking 2D & 3D ones too) and it was used by Gnome, KDE and other desktops (some still do) as well.īut later, Gnome developers decided to replace it with a package of their own called the ‘gnome-screensaver (KDE also has a tool of their own). In the recent past, Gnome desktop used to come with a package called ‘xscreensaver’.