Not too long ago I remember testing out a Linux LiveCD of some distro or another–I don’t really remember which one–and when I fired up xscreensaver (ooh, pretty lines and colors), I saw a screensaver called flux, which I had never seen before. Strange, I thought. Perhaps this is a brand new/beta version of xscreensaver.
Flux is part of an xscreensaver expansion known as Really Slick Screensavers –there are about a dozen of them and they are, in fact, really slick.
However, as near as I could tell, the version of xscreensaver on my desktop was completely up-to-date. I assumed that “flux” must be a third-party addition. With this in mind, this morning I decided to google for the flux screensaver.
What I found was that flux is part of an xscreensaver expansion known as Really Slick Screensavers–there are about a dozen of them and they are, in fact, really slick.
You can look at some screenshots, if you like.
If you’re using gentoo, you can install these with
# USE="xscreensaver openal 3dnow" emerge rss-glx -av
If you’re using debian (of some sort), you should be able to do this (I haven’t tested the debian install, not having a debian system running right now):
# apt-get install rss-glx
If you aren’t using debian or gentoo… why not? Just kidding; but you may need to look on the sourceforge rss-glx page for more information; it does sound like there are rpm files out there, or you could always compile the source.
