Install other Xscreensavers?

Support & Help Requests
1

I noticed that xscreensaver has a lot of screensavers that are not installed.

Any way to install the others?

2

Have you checked those from Welcome -> Getting Started -> Updates and accessories (or something like that). You can install additional screensavers and themes, and so on there.

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3

Thanks, I will check it out.

4

I found this works great;

Install packages with additional screensavers:

apt-get install xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra

Go to /usr/share/applications/screensavers directory:
cd /usr/share/applications/screensavers
There are located number of .desktop files. You should edit them by replacing the line

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
with
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;MATE;

Obviously it’s a routine to change them all manually. So use sed tool to edit all files in once:

find . -name '*.desktop' | xargs sed -i 's/OnlyShowIn=GNOME;/OnlyShowIn=GNOME;MATE;/'

Now you are able to use more than hundred screensavers on Mate!

5

Thanks.

There are 209 screensavers.