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XScreenSaver
XScreenSaver 5.15
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UNIX/Linux screensaver collection compiled for Mac.   Free
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    Jamie Zawinski
XScreenSaver is a collection of several hundred screen savers. This is a Mac port of the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems.
What's New
Version 5.15:
  • New hacks, hilbert, companioncube and tronbit.
  • Image-manipulating hacks can now load from RSS or Atom feeds: imageDirectory may contain a URL.
  • Updated webcollage for recent search engine changes.
  • phosphor and apple2 can now be run as standalone terminal emulator applications on MacOS.
  • photopile sped up.
  • New molecule in molecule.
  • Upgraded to XCode 4.0, which means that Mac OS X 10.4 PPC builds are impossible, and Intel is now required.
  • Turned on LC_CTYPE on Linux; maybe Japanese password entry works now?
Version 5.15:
  • New hacks, hilbert, companioncube and tronbit.
  • Image-manipulating hacks can now load from RSS or Atom feeds: imageDirectory may contain a URL.
  • Updated webcollage for recent search engine changes.
  • phosphor and apple2 can now be run as more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later







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XScreenSaver User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 5.x:
(7)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
(7)

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Castle Rose reviewed on 29 Sep 2011
Wow, I've used several of these with my old PPC Mac for years. I just got a new Intel Mac that came with Lion and copied the savers over and got the incompatable message. Then I open MacUpdate and on the first page is the XScreenSaver 5.15 update. WooHoo, they all work with Lion now, Thanks!
[Version 5.15]


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+59
Bezierboy commented on 19 Apr 2011
Changes 18-Apr-2011:

Optionally enabled full-scene OpenGL antialiasing. Set the resource *multiSample to true if doing so doesn't kill performance with your video hardware.
New version of glhanoi.
Image-loading hacks that display the file name now also display the sub-directory (xscreensaver-getimage now returns relative paths under imageDirectory).
Passwords that contain UTF-8 non-Latin1 chars are now typeable.
Numerous minor stability fixes.
[Version 5.13]


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+683
Robotank commented on 05 Dec 2010
Cool--there are some great savers in this package. Thanks!
[Version 5.12]


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+480
Negritude commented on 18 Jan 2010
The 64-bit compile by this other person was completely unnecessary and the links to it should be removed. Read this comment from the developer:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20100109122858247

"What in the world are you talking about? The MacOS builds of XScreenSaver have been 3-way compiled for ppc, x86 and x86_64 since xscreensaver version 5.09 released back in September. The same executables will install and run without modification on any Mac (ppc or intel) running MacOS 10.4.0 through 10.6.2.

Incidentally, getting these to work on 10.6 was not simply a matter of recompiling them. The 10.6 version of ScreenSaverEngine did not only require that things be compiled for x86_64 -- it also required that garbage collection be turned on, and that resulted in a bunch of unexpectedly complicated memory-corruption bugs."
[Version 5.10]

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+480
Negritude replied on 05 Dec 2010
Also note that this is the link to the official port:

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
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-1

-1
Jvrlbrtr commented on 16 Jan 2010
be really careful with the screensavers

i have osx 10.6.2 in a macbook pro aluminum installed and had one of the screensavers running (grav) and shut the lid of my mac to put it to sleep. when i came back and reopened the lid 2 hours after that, my mac was burning hot and the fan was running...

i would not use them...
[Version 5.10]

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+337
Penguirl replied on 06 Jan 2011
Somehow I don't think that it was the screensaver's fault…
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-1

dmarcoot reviewed on 25 Jan 2009
Awesome set of screen savers. Thank you
[Version 5.08]


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+76
islandmacman commented on 13 Aug 2008
This is a real gem! Thanks developers.
[Version 5.07]


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+39

aetnaria reviewed on 12 Aug 2008
Over 200 screen savers in this download. Check out the screenshots on their website to decide which ones you'll give a spin in your Screen Savers folder, as while some are 'meh' others are pretty good.
[Version 5.07]


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+6

xypher reviewed on 13 Oct 2007
About 50% of these are worth keeping. Definitely worth a download.
[Version 5.02]


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loso777 commented on 30 Apr 2007
Awesome........Thanks!!!
[Version 5.02]


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+51

Funjoy rated on 21 Jan 2011

[Version 5.12]


Downloads:17,451
Version Downloads:1,021
Type:Utilities : Screen Savers
License:Free
Date:29 Sep 2011
Platform:Intel
Price:Free0.00
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