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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://noagendasocial.com/users/mhjohnson/statuses/111004755571515689">Mark :verified: (mhjohnson@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 12:44:47 JST</a><a href="https://noagendasocial.com/@mhjohnson" title="mhjohnson@noagendasocial.com"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/118634-48-20230514015411.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Mark :verified:" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Mark :verified:</a></section><article><p>jwz has some comments about Wayland<br><a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/</a><br>As the long time author of XScreenSaver he has some real credentials here.</p><p>Yeah - screensavers work really well on MacOS and Linux systems running X. But this page and a link early in this page explains why Wayland is not so fortunate.</p><p>I'm an old guy so am a fan of various X11 features that are NOT in Wayland. It would be hard to convince me otherwise.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2021724#notice-3968028">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-09-04T12:44:47+09:00" title="Monday, 04-Sep-2023 12:44:47 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://noagendasocial.com/@mhjohnson/111004755571515689" rel="external" title="Sent from noagendasocial.com via ActivityPub">noagendasocial.com</a></span></span><a href="https://noagendasocial.com/@mhjohnson/111004755571515689">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: cdn.jwz.org</div><h5><a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/">Wayland and screen savers</a></h5><div> from <span>@jwz</span></div></header><div>Wayland does not support screen savers: it does not have any provision that allows screen savers to even exist in any meaningful way. If you value screen savers, that's kind of a problem. Why doesn't it? Well, I suppose the designers of Wayland have no joy in their cold, black hearts simply do not value screen savers. I suspect that some day someone will graft screen saver support onto ...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Mark :verified: (mhjohnson@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 12:44:47 JST Mark :verified:
jwz has some comments about Wayland
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/
As the long time author of XScreenSaver he has some real credentials here.
Yeah - screensavers work really well on MacOS and Linux systems running X. But this page and a link early in this page explains why Wayland is not so fortunate.
I'm an old guy so am a fan of various X11 features that are NOT in Wayland. It would be hard to convince me otherwise.
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  Wayland does not support screen savers: it does not have any provision that allows screen savers to even exist in any meaningful way. If you value screen savers, that's kind of a problem. Why doesn't it? Well, I suppose the designers of Wayland have no joy in their cold, black hearts simply do not value screen savers. I suspect that some day someone will graft screen saver support onto ...

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