God forbid a woman not being up to date on the politics of modern technology.

I’m not your chum, mate.

I’m on Kubuntu 24.04 and I got xscreensaver working in Wayland.

You have to log into an X11 session first and set up xscreensaver how you want it. Once it’s set up and working, log out of the X11 session and log back into the Wayland session.

Go to the System Settings and look for Autostart. Make an autostart entry for xscreensaver here. Then check the xscreensaver.desktop file that created and make sure it looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=xscreensaver --no-splash
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=xscreensaver
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=XScreenSaver
Name=XScreenSaver
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xscreensaver

As long as this is set to autostart, you will have a working xscreensaver in Kubuntu, if nothing else. I cannot confirm it working on any other systems and you absolutely do need both X11 and Wayland as sign in options for this to work. If you want to change settings you will have to switch back to X11 or I use scripts to edit the .xscreensaver configuration file.

For example I wrote two small python scripts for changing the length of time before the screen saver activates, and use cron to run them in the morning and evening. This is the one for the morning:

import os
import sys
import fileinput

# Read in the file
with open('.xscreensaver', 'r') as file:
  filedata = file.read()

# Replace the target string
filedata = filedata.replace('timeout:	0:05:00', 'timeout:	1:00:00')

# Write the file out again
with open('.xscreensaver', 'w') as file:
  file.write(filedata)

The morning script changes the timeout to five minutes, and the evening script changes is to an hour, making it a simple find and replace a string for both since we’re just rotating numbers.

and this is what it would look like in your crontab:

0 7 * * * python3 /home/yourusername/screensavermorning.py

At least the feeling is justified, then.

My solution was to set up xscreensaver how I wanted it in X11 and then start it via CLI as a background app on system startup for wayland.

You can’t manage screensaver settings from wayland, but you can force it into working.

I feel personally attacked.

God damn that pricing is kind of crazy for how little you’re getting out of it…

Just more proof that AI is ruining fucking everything.

I’ve come to make an announcement: Shadow the Hedgehog’s a bitch-ass motherfucker, he pissed on my fucking wife. That’s right, he took his hedgehog-fuckin’ quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was “this big,” and I said “that’s disgusting,” so I’m making a callout post on my Twitter .com: Shadow the Hedgehog, you’ve got a small dick, It’s the size of this walnut except WAY smaller. And guess what? Here’s what my dong looks like: that’s right baby, all points, no quills, no pillows-- look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my wife, so guess what, I’m gonna fuck the EARTH. That’s right, this is what you get: MY SUPER LASER PISS!! Except I’m not gonna piss on the Earth, I’m gonna go higher; I’m pissing ON THE MOON! How do you like that, Obama? I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT! You have twenty-three hours before the piss drrrrroplllllllets hit the fucking Earth, now get outta my fucking sight, before I piss on you too!

The franchise will always mean to me weird obscure internet meme culture.

I’m fairly sure they’re getting close to human trials for regrowing teeth from stem cells. I first read about it maybe 15ish years ago and saw something recently about it again.

But yes, to get the old tooth out you’re still going to be yanking it the fuck out with pliers essentially.

What’s the Bat Drone doing in the Backrooms?

NO SPRINGS!

Well I guess this makes it officially time to rewatch Black Books.

You mean Biden, who is still alive and was part of the problem? Also Nancy Pelosi. Senator Angus King. Senaot Dick Durbin.

If I recall correctly, Boomers became the dominant age group in 1998. There were still plenty of Silent Generation people in there until more recently, like Dianne Feinstein, for instance who only passed 3 years ago.

Feinstein was a literal roadblock to progress, she did a lot more damage than some of the boomers younger than her by refusing to let go.

You can still override it to install the apt package, same with thunderbird.

No no no, trust me, they all use AI. They just don’t want it in their backyards.

This is the kind of stuff they use to build in predominantly minority neighborhoods. White people are angry that their skin color is no longer protecting them from it.

Kubuntu minimal install doesn’t have snaps.

Which is honestly just as hilarious, because I use Ubuntu just trigger Arch nerds.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

Linux Users:

Fancy a wank, mate?

Yep. What of it?