a collection of
free screen savers
- for X11 and MacOS
+ for X11, macOS,
+ iOS and Android
By Jamie Zawinski
and many others
This is the XScreenSaver source code distribution. It is strongly recommended
that you install a binary release rather than trying to compile it yourself.
-Binaries are available for almost all platforms, including MacOS X. See the
-XScreenSaver web site for details.
+Executables are available for almost all platforms, including macOS, iOS, and
+Android. See the XScreenSaver web site for details.
To compile for a Unix system with X11:
If you are on an "apt"-based system, "apt-get build-dep xscreensaver"
might install most of the compilation dependencies.
-To compile for MacOS X or iOS:
+To compile for macOS X or iOS:
- Use the included XCode project. Requires XCode 6 and MacOS X 10.8
+ Use the included XCode project. Requires XCode 6 and macOS 10.8
or newer.
To compile for Android:
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+5.38 * New hack, 'esper'.
+ * macOS: Support for Retina displays.
+ * X11: `webcollage' now works with ImageMagick instead of with
+ pbmtools if `webcollage-helper' is not installed.
+ * 'bsod' now accepts Dunning-Krugerrands.
+ * Android: These hacks work now: 'anemone', 'anemotaxis', 'atlantis',
+ 'bouboule', 'celtic', 'compass', 'crackberg', 'epicycle',
+ 'fuzzyflakes', 'goop', 'kumppa' 'munch', 'pacman', 'polyominoes',
+ 'slip'.
+ * Android: Thick lines work better for: 'anemone', 'anemotaxis',
+ 'celtic', 'compass', 'deluxe', 'epicycle', 'fuzzyflakes', 'pacman'
+ * Android: Assorted performance improvements, especially for 'kumppa'
+ and 'slip'.
+ * Android TV: Daydreams work.
+ * iOS: Tweaks for iPhone X.
+ * Lots of xlockmore-derived hacks now have animated erase routines.
+ * 'crystal' works properly on non-X11 systems.
+ * 'm6502' now includes 'texture.asm'.
+ * X11: Try harder to find sensible fonts for the password dialog.
+
5.37 * New hack, `vigilance'.
* Added Mac Software Update and VMware to `bsod'.
- * OSX: Grabbing the desktop works again.
- * OSX: Pinch to zoom.
+ * macOS: Grabbing the desktop works again.
+ * macOS: Pinch to zoom.
* Android: Both Daydreams and Live Wallpapers are implemented.
* Updated `webcollage' for recent changes.
* Various bug fixes.
+
5.36 * New hacks, `discoball', `cubetwist', `cubestack', `splodesic'
and `hexstrut'.
- * OSX: loading image files works in `dymaxionmap', `glplanet',
+ * macOS: loading image files works in `dymaxionmap', `glplanet',
`lavalite', `pulsar', `gleidescope' and `extrusion'.
* Several new programs in `m6502'.
* `rotzoomer -mode circle'.
* Better titles in `photopile'.
+
5.35 * New hacks, `dymaxionmap', `unicrud', `energystream', `raverhoop'
and `hydrostat'.
* Added Windows 10 to `bsod'.
* X11: ignore WM_USER_TIME property changes with days-old timestamps.
Thanks, KDE.
- * MacOS, iOS: Better fonts in `BSOD' and `memscroller'.
- * MacOS 10.8 or later and iOS 6.0 or later are now required, since
+ * macOS, iOS: Better fonts in `bsod' and `memscroller'.
+ * macOS 10.8 or later and iOS 6.0 or later are now required, since
Xcode 6 can no longer build executables that work on older OSes.
* Many, many Android improvements.
* iOS: Fixed rotation to work with the new iOS 8+ API.
5.34 * Fixed a crash when hot-swapping monitors while locked.
* Fixed some incorrect output from `xscreensaver-command -watch'.
- * Various OSX and iOS performance improvements.
+ * Various macOS and iOS performance improvements.
5.33 * New hacks, `splitflap' and `romanboy'.
* Better detection of user activity on modern GNOME systems.
5.32 * Fixed some X11 compilation problems.
* Fixed display size and shake gestures on iOS.
- * OSX/iOS Performance improvements.
+ * macOS/iOS Performance improvements.
5.31 * New hacks, `geodesicgears', `binaryring' and `cityflow'.
* UTF-8 text support (instead of only Latin1) and antialiased text
- on X11 with Xft (instead of only on OSX/iOS) in `fontglide',
+ on X11 with Xft (instead of only on macOS/iOS) in `fontglide',
`noseguy', `fliptext', `starwars', and `winduprobot'.
The other text-displaying hacks (`apple2', `phosphor', `xmatrix',
and `gltext') also now accept UTF-8 input, though they convert it
to Latin1 or ASCII.
* `glplanet' now has both day and night maps, and a sharp terminator.
- * Fixed `webcollage' on OSX.
+ * Fixed `webcollage' on macOS.
* Fixed a transparency glitch in `winduprobot'.
* `lockward' works on iOS.
- * Text and image loading work on OSX 10.10.
+ * Text and image loading work on macOS 10.10.
* Rotation works properly on iOS 8.
* Added a search field on iOS.
* Preliminary, unfinished support for Android.
* Most hacks respond to mouse-clicks, double-taps and swipes as
meaning "do something different now".
* Reworked OpenGL fonts.
- * The OSX auto-update installer wasn't working. This time for sure?
+ * The macOS auto-update installer wasn't working. This time for sure?
* Various minor fixes.
5.29 * Downgraded to Xcode 5.0.2 to make it possible to build savers
* Updated `webcollage' for recent changes.
5.28 * Fixed some compilation problems and intermittent crashes.
- * Turned off the OSX 10.6 enable_gc hack. It didn't work.
+ * Turned off the macOS 10.6 enable_gc hack. It didn't work.
5.27 * New hacks, `tessellimage' and `projectiveplane'.
* Added support for pthreads, because Dave Odell is a madman.
* X11: Don't assume Suspend = 0 implies "No DPMS".
* Minor updates to `boxed' and `klein'.
* Fixed possible crash in `apple2', `noseguy', `xmatrix', `shadebobs'.
- * Fixed possible crash in OSX preferences.
- * OSX Performance improvements.
+ * Fixed possible crash in macOS preferences.
+ * macOS Performance improvements.
* Plugged some leaks.
5.26 * More auto-updater tweaks.
-5.25 * Try harder to bypass Quarrantine and Gatekeeper in OSX installer.
+5.25 * Try harder to bypass Quarrantine and Gatekeeper in macOS installer.
* Some files were missing from the tarball.
-5.24 * Added "Automatically check for updates" option on OSX.
+5.24 * Added "Automatically check for updates" option on macOS.
* Updated feed-loading for recent Flickr changes.
* Updated `webcollage' for recent Google changes.
* Added Instagram and Bing as `webcollage' image sources.
* Bug fixes.
5.23 * New hack, `geodesic'.
- * iOS and OSX: huge XCopyArea performance improvements.
+ * iOS and macOS: huge XCopyArea performance improvements.
* More heuristics for using RSS feeds as image sources.
* Improved Wikipedia parser.
* Updated `webcollage' for recent Flickr changes.
* Added Android to `bsod'.
- * OSX: Added a real installer.
- * iOS and OSX: fixed a font-metrics bug.
+ * macOS: Added a real installer.
+ * iOS and macOS: fixed a font-metrics bug.
* iOS: Fixed aspect ratio bug in non-rotating apps when launched in
landscape mode.
* Made `quasicrystal' work on weak graphics cards.
now requires a login to get any feeds.
* New version of `fireworkx'.
* Minor fixes to `distort', `fontglide', `xmatrix'.
- * New MacOS crash in `bsod'.
+ * New macOS crash in `bsod'.
* New mode in `lcdscrub'.
5.20 * Support for iPhone 5 screen size.
- * Fixed modifier key handing in Apple2.app and Phosphor.app on MacOS.
+ * Fixed modifier key handing in Apple2.app and Phosphor.app on macOS.
* Various minor bug fixes.
-5.19 * MacOS 10.8.0 compatibility.
+5.19 * macOS 10.8.0 compatibility.
* iOS performance improvements.
5.18 * iOS responds to shake gestures to randomize.
`imageDirectory' may contain a URL.
* Updated `webcollage' for recent search engine changes.
* `phosphor' and `apple2' can now be run as standalone terminal
- emulator applications on MacOS.
+ emulator applications on macOS.
* `photopile' sped up.
* New molecule in `molecule'.
- * "Upgraded" to XCode 4.0, which means that MacOS 10.4 PPC builds are
+ * "Upgraded" to XCode 4.0, which means that macOS 10.4 PPC builds are
impossible, and Intel is now required.
* Turned on LC_CTYPE on Linux; maybe Japanese password entry works
now?
* Passwords that contain UTF-8 non-Latin1 chars are now typeable.
* Numerous minor stability fixes.
-5.12 * Big speed improvement on OSX for heavy XCopyArea users (`xmatrix',
+5.12 * Big speed improvement on macOS for heavy XCopyArea users (`xmatrix',
`moire2', `phosphor', etc.)
- * Plugged a bad OSX-only Pixmap leak.
- * Kludged around the OSX pty bug that caused text to be truncated in
+ * Plugged a bad macOS-only Pixmap leak.
+ * Kludged around the macOS pty bug that caused text to be truncated in
phosphor, starwars, apple2, etc.
* New molecule in `molecule'.
* `glhanoi' now supports an arbitrary number of poles.
* Added support for XInput-style alternate input devices.
5.11 * New versions of `photopile', `strange'.
- * Worked around MacOS 10.6 garbage collector bug that caused the
+ * Worked around macOS 10.6 garbage collector bug that caused the
screen saver process to become enormous.
* Fixed flicker in `pipes', `cubestorm', and `noof'.
- * Fixed EXIF rotation on MacOS 10.6.
- * Fixed desktop-grabbing when screen locked on MacOS.
+ * Fixed EXIF rotation on macOS 10.6.
+ * Fixed desktop-grabbing when screen locked on macOS.
* Minor fixes to `circuit', `polyhedra', `tangram', `gears', `pinion',
`substrate', `xanalogtv'.
* Fixed some leaks in `xanalogtv' and `apple2'.
* Better seeding of the RNG.
-5.10 * Fixed some crashes and color problems on MacOS 10.6.
+5.10 * Fixed some crashes and color problems on macOS 10.6.
* Retired `hypercube' and `hyperball', which are redundant with
`polytopes'.
-5.09 * Ported to MacOS 10.6, including various 64-bit fixes.
+5.09 * Ported to macOS 10.6, including various 64-bit fixes.
* New hack, `rubikblocks'.
* Fixed another potential RANDR crash.
- * Use correct proxy server on MacOS.
+ * Use correct proxy server on macOS.
* `molecule' now correctly displays PDB 3.2 files.
* Updates to `mirrorblob', `glhanoi', and `sonar'.
* Rewritten version of `klein' hack.
* `flipflop' can load images onto the tiles.
* Fixed the bouncing ball in `stairs'.
* Added the missing Utah Teapotahedron to `polyhedra'.
- * `blitspin' works with color images on MacOS now.
+ * `blitspin' works with color images on macOS now.
* Added transparency to `stonerview'.
* Improved layout of the preferences dialogs: they should all now be
usable even on ridiculously tiny laptop screens.
- * MacOS preferences text fields now prevent you from entering numbers
+ * macOS preferences text fields now prevent you from entering numbers
that are out of range.
* Added "Reset to Defaults" button on X11.
* Added relevant Wikipedia links to many of the screen saver
rectangles available.
* Don't warning about receipt of bogus ClientMessages, since Gnome's
just never going to stop sending those.
- * Worked around MacOS 10.5 perl bug that caused the text-displaying
+ * Worked around macOS 10.5 perl bug that caused the text-displaying
hacks to fail on some systems.
- * Hopefully fixed font-related System Preferences crashes in MacOS
+ * Hopefully fixed font-related System Preferences crashes in macOS
savers.
* The recent PAM changes broke the "Caps Lock" warning in the password
dialog, the failed login warnings, and syslogging. Fixed all that.
`fireworkx' and `webcollage'.
* `pong' can now display the current time as the score.
* `xmatrix -mode pipe' works better.
- * Minor tweaks for compilation on MacOS 10.5.0.
+ * Minor tweaks for compilation on macOS 10.5.0.
5.03 * New hacks, `cwaves', `glcells', `m6502', and `voronoi'.
* Minor fixes to `bsod'.
changes.
5.02 * Reworked PAM code to support fingerprint readers, etc.
- * Ported `webcollage' to MacOS.
- * Added MacOS 10.2 and 10.3 kernel panics to `bsod'.
+ * Ported `webcollage' to macOS.
+ * Added macOS 10.2 and 10.3 kernel panics to `bsod'.
* Fixed a Xinerama crash when changing the screen count.
* New blobbier `mirrorblob'.
* Minor updates to `lisa', `bsod', `ifs', `hypertorus', `polytopes',
`circuit', `endgame', `crackberg', `flipflop', `flipscreen3d',
`fliptext', and `carousel'.
- * Enabled multi-threaded OpenGL on MacOS.
+ * Enabled multi-threaded OpenGL on macOS.
5.01 * Backed out recent locale-related changes, since they broke far more
things than they fixed.
* Fail gracefully with ridiculously small window sizes.
- * `xflame' and `flag' ignore bitmap option on MacOS.
- * `speedmine' prefs work on MacOS.
+ * `xflame' and `flag' ignore bitmap option on macOS.
+ * `speedmine' prefs work on macOS.
* Better explosions in `boxed'.
* More dynamic motion in `sproingies'.
* More options in `flipflop'.
* Minor updates to `topblock'.
* Various other minor fixes.
-5.00 * Ported to MacOS X! (10.4.0 or newer)
+5.00 * Ported to macOS! (10.4.0 or newer)
* API change: instead of providing a single screenhack() function that
does not return, screen savers using the screenhack.h framework must
now provide "init" and "draw one frame" functions instead. All
* Changes to the defaults and command-line options of many hacks to
make the .xml files more consistent.
* Reap zombies in `glslideshow' and `carousel'.
- * `sonar' works without setuid on MacOS (dgram icmp).
+ * `sonar' works without setuid on macOS (dgram icmp).
* `xmatrix -mode pipe' displays the text of a subprocess.
* `endgame' has higher resolution chess-piece models.
* `webcollage' takes a -directory option to get images from a local
seem to be installed.
* Don't install `ant' by default, since there is some Java tool of
that name, which was causing confusion. And also it's boring.
- * Made screen grabbing work again on MacOS 10.4.2.
+ * Made screen grabbing work again on macOS 10.4.2.
* No longer prints bogus warnings about ClientMessages intended for
the window manager.
* Ignore unprintable characters in passwd entry field.
* New version of `glsnake' (with many more models.)
* Another Windows crash in `bsod'; also HVX/GCOS6/TPS6.
* New version of `endgame'.
- * Screen grabbing works on MacOS X.
+ * Screen grabbing works on macOS.
* Various minor fixes.
4.13 * On Xinerama systems, xscreensaver now runs one hack on each monitor
4.08 * New hacks, `atunnels' and `piecewise'.
* Physics improvement in `fluidballs'.
- * Various fixes for XDarwin systems (X11 on MacOS X.)
+ * Various fixes for XDarwin systems (X11 on macOS.)
* Added -clock option to `barcode'.
* Minor fixes to `endgame', `flurry', `flipscreen3d', and `gflux'.
* Updated to latest `config.guess' and `config.sub'.
* Fixed occasional core dump in `distort'.
* Added a Linux fsck failure and kernel panic to `bsod'.
- * Added MacOS X kernel panic to `bsod'.
+ * Added macOS kernel panic to `bsod'.
* Fixed a bug in `bsod' (all bsod bugs are ironic.)
* Fixed a bug that caused `xscreensaver-gl-helper' to print a nonsense
visual ID with some versions of `printf': this could cause GL
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