Xscreensaver for Windows

Xscreensaver for Windows | Find alternative screensavers

Xscreensaver for Windows alternative: Electric Sheep, Ribbons, Web Viewer offer abstract animations, colorful ribbons and website displays

What is Xscreensaver for Windows?

Xscreensaver is an open source screensaver application that has been popular on Linux and UNIX operating systems for decades. It provides a wide range of animated screensavers featuring various graphics, computational visualizations, jokes and informational displays. However, as it's designed for UNIX-based systems, Xscreensaver does not run natively on Microsoft Windows.

There are a few comparable screensaver choices for Windows users that can serve as alternatives to Xscreensaver:

• Electric Sheep - An open source collaborative screensaver project that uses people's idle computers to power evolutions of abstract animations known as sheep. The more people using it, the more complex sheep are able to evolve via distributed computing. Provides interesting and ever-changing artwork.
• Ribbons - A customizable screensaver featuring colorful animated ribbons swirling around the screen. Users can adjust ribbons' length, width and movement speed for personal preference.
• Web Viewer - A basic screensaver that simply displays different websites on a loop as though they were screensaver content. Allows web content as dynamic artwork.

While there is no 1:1 Windows version of Xscreensaver and its vast library of visualizations, the screensavers above help provide shifting artwork, information and entertainment during idle times in line with what Xscreensaver offers UNIX desktop users.

Xscreensaver for Windows Features

Official Links