| ▲ | justin66 5 days ago |
| > That sort of solution is cancer if you want to do anything the display server authors didn't think of. Hey come on man, a locking screen saver is a totally niche application. No demand for that. |
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| ▲ | mikkupikku 5 days ago | parent [-] |
| xscreensaver works just fine. It only needs to keep nosy roommates out, not the NSA. Not that Wayland would stop spooks anyway. |
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| ▲ | justin66 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It doesn’t lock the screen properly under Wayland. There’s an abyss of complaining about Wayland on jwz’s blog. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-wayland-and-lo... | | |
| ▲ | ethin 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | For some weird reason I can't access it, it just redirects me to this image about hacker news. Did he just configure his webserver to just universally display that image? Even if I manually enter the address into my address bar it does that so I assume that that's what he did... | | |
| ▲ | josefx 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The page sets a cookie when you visit it from hackernews and will redirect you to the image until you delete the cookie. | | | |
| ▲ | justin66 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The author of xscreensaver holds hn in a certain amount of contempt, yes. Just go with it. |
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| ▲ | justin66 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Also balls |
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| ▲ | udev4096 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Totally unrelated, I like your nickname :) |
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