How to develop linux screen saver

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Does anyone have a link or document on how to write a screensaver for Linux?

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Here's some info on xscreensaver that you may find of use: xscreensaver also there's an FAQ here.

There's a simple tutorial here too: simplesquares (from the first link)

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This might be of interest to you:

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#writing-savers

it's from the xscreensavers homepage, it's sort of the de facto screensaver

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Google "xscreensaver", and you can learn from its code, rather than starting from scratch.