Wayland and screen savers

Adding screen savers to Wayland is not simply a matter of port the XScreenSaver daemon", because under the Wayland model, screen blanking and locking should not be a third-party user-space app; much of the logic must be embedded into the display manager itself. This is a good thing! It is a better model than what we have under X11.

But that means that accomplishing that task means not just writing code, but engaging with whatever passes for a standards body or design committee in the Wayland world, and that is... how shall I put this... not something that I personally feel highly motivated to do.

However, as I am the world's foremost expert on screen savers on Unix-like operating systems, here are a few simple admonitions for young and old.

Jamie Zawinski imparts his wisdom.