Screen saver

cliveh · Nov 24, 2014

Not sure if this is the correct part of the forum for this, so mods please move if you think otherwise. My question is what sort of images do you use as a screen saver and how often do you change it? I use a variety of other photographers images and change them about once a week. My present one is this by HCB-

MattKing · Nov 24, 2014

I think I usually use a different term - desktop background - for what you are referring to.

In any event, I usually use something I've shot myself. It is a good way of getting a sense of how well a photo will stand up to:
a) repeated viewing; and
b) numerous distractions.

Naturally, the choice of photographs is somewhat constrained - I don't like using something that makes it difficult to find something on my desktop.

I've had the attached as my desktop background for a little while now.

Sirius Glass · Nov 24, 2014

I use my own photographs for a background on my Mac.

I use this

as a background for my Windoz 8.1 machine because the laptop is a POS.

frank · Nov 24, 2014

My own shots. This one works well as wallpaper too.

Truzi · Nov 24, 2014

Right now I'm just using the stock XFCE logo wallpaper. I've used pictures I've taken myself, especially for the login screen. Once a photo of an abstract painting a friend had made. Another time I used the aquarium screen-saver as a desktop, but got bored with that.

I typically don't change often. I find something that is not too "busy" and leave it.

winger · Nov 24, 2014

No screen savers. For the desktops - on my iMac, I have a section of Monet's waterlillies and on my laptop a B&W version of a slide I shot at Tintern Abbey. Most of the time, there's enough on the desktop to cover them up.

hdeyong · Nov 25, 2014

I always use my own pics, and I change them every 3 or 4 days. There's no real pattern, it could be anything, whatever seems to hit the right note at that moment.

sionnac · Nov 25, 2014

For a screen saver - I think of it as moving images that appear when the screen has been inactive for a period of time - I use http://www.electricsheep.org/ . For the desktop background I use a series of images that change every 30 minutes.

Truzi · Nov 25, 2014

I like electric sheep, it's pretty good. For screensavers, I tend to install all the ones available in Debian, and just let them all randomly cycle

George Papantoniou · Nov 25, 2014

Truzi said:
I like electric sheep

Are you an android?

Truzi · Nov 25, 2014

George Papantoniou said:
Are you an android?

LOL. I don' t dream of them, so I guess not.

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