https://christof.damian.net/tags/copr/ Recent content in Copr on Christof Damian Hugo -- 0.161.1 en-GB Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://christof.damian.net/2026/10/retrosaver-on-fedora.html/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://christof.damian.net/2026/10/retrosaver-on-fedora.html/ <figure class="post-image"> <a href="https://christof.damian.net/2026/10/retrosaver-on-fedora.html/retrosaver-desk.jpg" data-lightbox="gallery"> <img src="https://christof.damian.net/2026/10/retrosaver-on-fedora.html/retrosaver-desk_hu_72d40ba6cdfb37e3.webp" alt="Two monitors on a desk with the XScreenSaver module bubblecolors stretched across both screens" width="300" height="225"> </a> </figure> <p>Since I switched to GNOME and Wayland on my desktop I have been missing XScreenSaver.</p> <p><a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/">JWZ is rightly not planning to add support for this</a> unless there are some significant changes in GNOME.</p> <p>I felt left out whenever I saw a new version with new hacks being released.</p> <p>Recently I stumbled over <a href="https://github.com/c-premus/retrosaver">retrosaver</a> by <a href="https://github.com/c-premus">c-premus</a>. It is basically a workaround to run the hacks on GNOME Wayland. It doesn&rsquo;t lock the screen and leaves that to GNOME, so it isn&rsquo;t really a replacement for XScreenSaver. At home, this is probably good enough.</p>