jwz: xscreensaver flash

xscreensaver flash

Neat -- the latest version of the standalone Flash player has xscreensaver support, so now you can play Flash movies as screen savers.

Tags: computers, firstperson, linux, xscreensaver

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10 Responses:

baconmonkey says:

20 years ago at 6:17 pm

oh...
boy....
now it can always be peanut butter jelly time
- vxo says:
  
  20 years ago at 4:43 am
  
  this. (Warning: Do not view if you have a history of epileptic seizures, etc...)
viqsi says:

20 years ago at 12:38 am

Feh. They still don't have audio/video sync working properly in that version.
- jwz says:
  
  20 years ago at 4:59 am
  
  Who wants their screensaver to make noise?
josephgrossberg says:

20 years ago at 2:16 am

Very cool. Where do you see that info? I couldn't find any reference to xscreensaver in the README.
- jwz says:
  
  20 years ago at 4:59 am
```
Usage: gflashplayer [OPTION]... [SWF_FILE]...

  -h, --help        Display this help and exit
  -root             Use root window for xscreensaver
                    [SWF_FILE] required in this mode
  -window-id <id>   Window ID for xscreensaver-demo preview
```
  - josephgrossberg says:
    
    20 years ago at 5:53 am
    
    Thanks. Very cool.
    
    Did you know beforehand that they were trying to do this, or was it a (pleasant) surprise?
    - jwz says:
      
      20 years ago at 5:56 am
      
      I talked to the guy who was working on it, about a year ago, but I didn't know it had ever actually been released.
livejournalsux says:

20 years ago at 8:01 am

Anyone know where I can find some good flash eye candy now?
violentbloom says:

20 years ago at 7:20 pm

So you know it's done screensaver stuff for many versions now right?
I mean it's not like I pointed out to you or anything. hurmph. *having a snit moment*
so what's up with the sudden liking of flash? It's a big huge pile of steaming shit now. The player used to be something like 120k and now it's fucking 4mb.

Anyway you just have to build in the screensaver bit when you created the swf file so that it launches that way.
really no reason to upgrade from flash 4 which actually works and has a small elegant player unlike the bloated piece of shit they have now that won't even run on my machine... but I'm not a bitter ex-employee or anything. ahem.