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XScreenSaver 5.08 out now. A bunch of bug fixes, but most notably this time, I finally retired a bunch of screen savers that suck. Also I rewrote Jigsaw and Sonar as OpenGL programs, and they are a lot slicker now. read more

XScreenSaver 5.09 is out now! In addition to the appearance of a few new savers, this version works on Snow Leopard (as well as 10.4). It has a few bugs, but since the previous version didn't run at all on 10.6, I'll call this the "better than nothing" release. Some things I could use help with: There were some new color-endian issues with 10.6. I have tested it on a 10.5.8 PPC Mac and on a 10.6 Intel Mac. I would like to know if images are displaying properly (in, for example, the...

XScreenSaver 5.10 is out now. I think I have fixed the color and crashing problems on MacOS 10.6. I'm still curious to hear from someone who has tried to run this on 10.4 PPC. Let me know how it works...

XScreenSaver 5.11 is out now. Mostly bug fixes and minor tweaks this time, the most notable fix being that it uses a lot less memory on MacOS 10.6. My current theory as to why the memory usage got so much worse between 10.5 and 10.6 is that the 10.6 garbage collector sucks in the following way: It only does a collection when a threshold of outstanding collectible allocations has been surpassed. However, CoreGraphics creates lots of small collectible allocations that contain pointers to very...

XScreenSaver 5.11 is out now. There are only a few visible changes this time, but there are some big performance improvements on MacOS, so Mac users should definitely upgrade. I feel a nagging sense of guilt at having released a new xscreensaver without having written a new saver or two since the last release, but I've been sitting on this batch of bug fixes for almost five months waiting for inspiration to strike, and, well, it's time. (Suggestions for new savers I oughta write are always...

gnome-screensaver is more stable than xscreensaver (Occasionally I have been lock out by it), yet the default collection of savers is not as rich. There are several of instructions of how to do this, including: Can I use xscreensaver "hacks" with gnome-screensaver? and Add xscreensaver to gnome-screensaver in Fedora Core 6 . But their information is somewhat outdated. Here is my instruction for F-13, referencing this post : Install xscreensaver- . (You do want the richness of xscreensaver...