I had a random thought - "what would it take to support arbitrary old screensavers in Plasma 6 again?" ๐ค So here's xscreensaver safely rendered as a background for Plasma screen locker, working on both Wayland and X11 sessions. Turned out so much simpler than I expected ๐ Just some 70 lines of pure QML and a tiny glue to launch the process.
#plasma #kde #xscreensaver #wayland #x11 #qtwayland #qml #qtquick #gnu #linux
How it works? It's a Plasma wallpaper plugin which is an extremely simple QtWayland compositor that only handles a single fullscreen window and draws it - so any Wayland window can be drawn as a background. This window can of course also belong to Xwayland ๐
This means we can go beyond xscreensaver. How about... Wine? ๐
#plasma #kde #xscreensaver #wayland #x11 #qtwayland #qml #qtquick #gnu #linux #wine