WebLullaby

Browser embedded xscreensaver module for web based screensavers.

Story

Two proof-of-concept tasks failed before this project:

• Native GTK implementation

  Result: This could manipulates windows properly, but could't creates GPU accelerated WebView.

• Native QT implementation

  Result: This could create GPU accelerated WebView, but could't re-parents QtMainWindow into the xscreensaver window (foreign window related bugs)

Now, this project combines advantages of the two POCs, so I use PyQt for create GPU accelerated WebView and PyGTK for window manipulation.

Dependencies

• PyGTK >=2.0, <3.0
• PyQt5 >=5.5, <6.0

Install dependencies on Ubuntu Xenial

sudo ./setup.sh

Setup

1. Screensaver to ~/.xscreensaver config:

   ...
   
   programs:                                                             \
              /full/path/of/xscreensaver-web-lullaby/bin/web-lullaby   \n\
   
   ...
   

2. Open the XScreenSaver Preferences and select the WebLullaby.py

Configure

You can specify the desired URL by command line argument.

1. Open the XScreenSaver Preferences and select the WebLullaby.py

2. Click on Settings... and after that Advanced >>

3. You can extend the command in Command Line: field with the URL, e.g.:

   /full/path/of/xscreensaver-web-lullaby/WebLullaby/WebLullaby.py \
       'https://web-animations.github.io/web-animations-demos/#galaxy/'

Bugs

Bugs or suggestions? Visit the issue tracker.