Package Details: xscreensaver-arch-logo 6.16-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/xscreensaver-arch-logo.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: xscreensaver-arch-logo
Description: Screen saver and locker for the X Window System with Arch Linux branding
Upstream URL: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
Licenses: 0BSD
Conflicts: xscreensaver
Provides: xscreensaver
Submitter: Harvie
Maintainer: Geballin (morgenstern)
Last Packager: morgenstern
Votes: 213
Popularity: 0.125419
First Submitted: 2009-05-19 16:57 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-09-24 09:48 (UTC)

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morgenstern commented on 2025-07-05 10:05 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-05 12:33 (UTC) by morgenstern)

Please note that the PKGBUILD for version 6.11 includes the build option --enable-pam-check-account-type (see here and here).

If you get the message "password initialization failed" when trying to unlock your screen, then you may need to uncomment the following line in /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver:

auth    include system-auth

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morgenstern commented on 2026-09-25 09:13 (UTC)

Sure. Though it does feel quite strange that a program called "xscreensaver" should require Wayland!

I will make the change as part of the next version bump.

zomgugoff commented on 2026-09-24 15:34 (UTC)

It seems Wayland has become common enough that this package should have it enabled by default now. Can that be changed?

morgenstern commented on 2025-07-05 10:05 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-05 12:33 (UTC) by morgenstern)

Please note that the PKGBUILD for version 6.11 includes the build option --enable-pam-check-account-type (see here and here).

If you get the message "password initialization failed" when trying to unlock your screen, then you may need to uncomment the following line in /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver:

auth    include system-auth

morgenstern commented on 2022-09-03 05:39 (UTC)

Updated, apologies for the delay.

doctorx commented on 2022-08-24 21:26 (UTC) (edited on 2022-08-24 21:32 (UTC) by doctorx)

bug in 6.04: Unable to flush stdout: Bad file descriptor.


diff --git a/hacks/xscreensaver-getimage-file b/hacks/xscreensaver-getimage-file index 54ce2a8b..80a69e77 100755 --- a/hacks/xscreensaver-getimage-file +++ b/hacks/xscreensaver-getimage-file @@ -1545,6 +1545,13 @@ sub main() { my $abs_p = 0; my $flush_p = 0;

      +  # Some time between perl 5.16.3 and 5.28.3, invoking a script with >&-
      +  # started writing "Unable to flush stdout: Bad file descriptor" to stderr
      +  # at exit. So if stdout is closed, open it as /dev/null instead.
      +  #
      +  open (STDOUT, '>', '/dev/null')
      +    if (! defined (syswrite (STDOUT, "")));  # undef if fd closed; 0 if open.
      +
           while ($_ = $ARGV[0]) {
             shift @ARGV;
           if    (m/^--?verbose$/s)      { $verbose++; }

alex.forencich commented on 2022-06-04 05:05 (UTC)

Nice, seems to be displaying the Arch logos properly now.

morgenstern commented on 2022-06-04 04:13 (UTC)

@alex.forencich the Arch logos are distributed with the PKGBUILD and are applied in the prepare() function by replacing the default xscreensaver logo images and bitmaps. However, it looks like some additional xscreensaver logos were added in xscreensaver-6.00 and xscreensaver-6.04.

I have pushed an update that includes additional Arch logos to replace the new xscreensaver ones. Let me know if that resolves your issue.

alex.forencich commented on 2022-06-03 20:06 (UTC)

Is it just me, or has this package not been displaying the Arch logo for quite some time now? Is there a configuration setting that needs to be adjusted to get it to display the Arch logo instead of the xscreensaver one?

marakasmalan commented on 2022-01-30 22:53 (UTC) (edited on 2022-01-30 23:02 (UTC) by marakasmalan)

Hi, this package is recommended in the wiki.

Initially I had an error, installing via ssh. using the terminal on the actual device it worked fine.

Thank you for maintaining this package.

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