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

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@pup It's now published in the KDE Store and can be installed with "Get New Plugins" button in Plasma. It's also in AUR as "plasma6-wallpapers-application"

store.kde.org/p/2318884

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