So I have been kind of bummed about the lack of a screensaver option for wayland and pining for the old days, of a land that came before. I completely understand the wayland devs perspective on this. But I’m old and nostalgic so I set out to try to find a workaround.

env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY xscreensaver --no-splash

So xscreensaver’s settings won’t work which makes it hard to configure. The only solution I have is to configure it in an X session and switch back to wayland. It doesn’t really have a screen lock function and really I don’t need/want it to. I just wanted to have some bouncing cows on my screen while I’m listening to music doing the dishes!

Thought I’d ask if anyone knows any hacks to get xscreensavers settings working under wayland so I don’t have to switch sessions? Also maybe a hack to get one of the awesome xscreensavers working as a desktop background in KDE?

A side note, a lot of work went into these screensavers and I don’t think they should be lost to time or relegated to the annals of history because it’s lock screen functionality is kind of obsolete. I say we deserve bouncing cows!