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> That sort of solution is cancer if you want to do anything the display server authors didn't think of.

Hey come on man, a locking screen saver is a totally niche application. No demand for that.

xscreensaver works just fine. It only needs to keep nosy roommates out, not the NSA. Not that Wayland would stop spooks anyway.

Totally unrelated, I like your nickname :)

It doesn’t lock the screen properly under Wayland. There’s an abyss of complaining about Wayland on jwz’s blog.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-wayland-and-lo...

Also balls

For some weird reason I can't access it, it just redirects me to this image about hacker news. Did he just configure his webserver to just universally display that image? Even if I manually enter the address into my address bar it does that so I assume that that's what he did...

The author of xscreensaver holds hn in a certain amount of contempt, yes. Just go with it.

The page sets a cookie when you visit it from hackernews and will redirect you to the image until you delete the cookie.

That’s new. Argh.

like 10-15 years

The cookie is new, AFAIK. The expressed contempt for hners is of course eternal.

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