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Show HN: Bash Screensavers

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225 points attogram | 2 comments | 28 Oct 25 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source

A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.
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seba_dos1 ◴[28 Oct 25 11:39 UTC] No.45731542[source]▶
You can put them onto your Plasma wallpaper and/or lockscreen background with plasma-wallpaper-application: https://invent.kde.org/dos/plasma-wallpaper-application

(thought I'd share that since its raison d'être was to put Asciiquarium there :))

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imiric ◴[28 Oct 25 14:52 UTC] No.45733648[source]▶
Ah, sweet!

Do you know if this supports any DE (or no DE)? Or is it strictly for KDE Plasma?

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1. seba_dos1 ◴[28 Oct 25 15:17 UTC] No.45733985[source]▶
Plasma wallpaper plugins are, well, for Plasma.

When it comes to wallpapers, you could do a similar trick on X11 DEs by putting it onto the root window (with a tool like xwinwrap) and on Wayland DEs that support layer-shell (with a tool like windowtolayer). I'm not aware of screen lockers that do something like that, but you could always write your own one.

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2. imiric ◴[28 Oct 25 15:54 UTC] No.45734505[source]▶
Right, but I hoped it would work as a standalone Qt app.

Yeah, I've used xwinwrap before, but am lost on Wayland. I'll look into windowtolayer, thanks. I'd rather not have to write this myself...