Continuing on the Wayland screensaver track, I sent a branch for review. The screensaver interface is now fully implemented in both the demo compositor and the demo screensaver. Screenshots below...
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22 Nov 2011
A Wayland screensaver
Now that screen locking is done in Wayland demos, it is time to go for the eye-candy: full-screen idle animations, also known as screensavers. The first step was to port an existing screensaver to Wayland. I chose glmatrix from XScreenSaver, because it is cool, and it renders with OpenGL. This way I did not have to port Xlib based rendering to Cairo (yay!).
Here is GLMatrix running as a regular, windowed application on Wayland, using the toytoolkit:
On Wayland, screensavers can be reduced to pure animation applications, while the compositor handles everything about locking. Next, we need a Wayland protocol extension to actually use this idle-animation in a screensaver'y way.
GLMatrix is already in the Wayland demo repository as a client called wscreensaver, and it requires cairo-gl, just like gears does.
Here is GLMatrix running as a regular, windowed application on Wayland, using the toytoolkit:
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| GLMatrix on the Wayland demo compositor. |
GLMatrix is already in the Wayland demo repository as a client called wscreensaver, and it requires cairo-gl, just like gears does.
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