Where does one get pretty screensavers for Xubuntu (xfce, xscreensaver)?

Question

I browsed through the default set of screensavers and the most are ugly, a couple are decent and the only quality ones are Flurry, GLSlideshow, MetaBalls are PopSquares. Where does one find more nice screensavers for Xubuntu? APT repository or xfce-look.org doesn't seem to have it. Or would you recommend running gnome-screensaver instead of xscreensaver? What options are there so that my screen doesn't display rough (not antialiased) visualizations of mathematic obsessions?

Solution 1

Have you added the following packages using Synaptic Package Manager?

xscreensaver-data, xscreensaver-data-extra, xscreensaver-gl,xscreensaver-gl-extra, rss-glx

These are the screensaver files themselves. For the rss-glx screensavers, please read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/rss-glx to properly install them into xscreensaver.

Solution 2

I recommend you give electricsheep a try. Looks nice, IMO, but be aware that over time it will build up files in the ".electricsheep" folder in your home directory.

sudo apt-get install electricsheep

Comments

[charlie-tca]

Xubuntu removed gnome-screensaver as default.

[Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

as of Xubuntu 14.04 newly added LightDM is not compatible with xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver is too tightly integrated with GNOME.