I had a random thought - "what would it take to support arbitrary old screensavers in Plasma 6 again?" ๐Ÿค” 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 ๐Ÿ˜ Just some 70 lines of pure QML and a tiny glue to launch the process.

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 ๐Ÿ˜„

This means we can go beyond xscreensaver. How about... Wine? ๐Ÿ˜

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@dos Obligatory question: can you run it as a regular (non-lockscreen) wallpaper too? ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

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