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I initially wanted to write “Death” in the title in full-caps, but that’s a bit melodramatic, even for me.
Error messages are often scary and frightning. Sometimes, they’re even amusing. I use a screensaver called BSOD (named after the Windows Blue Screen of Death) that displays error messages from various systems. Even though I know it’s just a screensaver, I’ve gotten a fright a few times too, since it uses my actual hostname and computer details in the screensaver. The screensaver also has a very nice feature that might not be intended, and that’s when people see it on my computer, they don’t touch it, since they think that it’s already broken. Awesome.
Here’s a list of “supported” systems:
The BSOD screensaver is available for XScreensaver and you can install it on Debian or Ubuntu by installing the xscreensaver-data-extra package.
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April 25th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
huh.. how you can get the setting panel?
i’ve just get the screensaver in screensaver option, but no setting panel.
im using ubuntu 8.10
thanks in advance
April 25th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
owh, i get it, sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-data-extra
and i must stop gnome screensavger 1st before xscreensaver can be use..
anyway, thanks for your post
April 25th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
It’s been gone out of the screensaver settings forever now, it’s back in Ubuntu 9.04 though \o/
April 26th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Thanks for sharing this. Though obviously it’s not the point of your post, I wish that gnome-screensaver offered some of the same ability to change settings as xscreensaver. :/