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idlescreen

Wayland-native idle screen and ambient display for Linux
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IdleScreen

Modular Wayland screensavers for Linux — an idle daemon, a family of procedural saver plugins, and the tools around them, packaged for Fedora (RPM) and Debian (APT).

Repo Role
idlescreen Front door: routes to every component, installs the product stack
cli Daemon protocol commands (status, preview, doctor, …)
runtime Idle daemon, sandboxed plugin runtime, D-Bus API
savers 11 procedural savers (aurora, beams, bursts, chaos, cosmos, glyphs, gnats, hearth, radar, ripple, storm) + the idle-savers bundle
studio Offline saver → video engine + Director TUI (AV1/H.264)
tui Runtime configuration TUI
cosmic COSMIC panel applet
packages Signed APT + RPM package channel
idlescreen.github.io Product site

Install

curl -fsSL https://idlescreen.github.io/install.sh | sh

Commands

idlescreen doctor --fix   # diagnose + repair
idlescreen preview storm  # fullscreen saver preview
idlescreen update         # upgrade packages
idlescreen tui            # runtime configuration

License

Apache-2.0 · © 2026 IdleScreen

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  1. runtime runtime Public

    IdleScreen runtime — idle daemon, plugin ABI, sandboxed host, D-Bus API

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  2. packages packages Public

    IdleScreen package channel — signed APT/RPM repos + the curl installer

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  3. .github .github Public

    IdleScreen organization profile and shared assets

  4. cosmic cosmic Public

    IdleScreen applet for COSMIC Desktop — panel integration for the daemon

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  5. studio studio Public

    IdleScreen studio — offline saver rendering to video (render) + Director TUI (idle-studio)

    Rust

  6. tui tui Public

    IdleScreen TUI — runtime configuration interface for the daemon (idle-tui)

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