webviewscreensaver VS RedPill

For those on Mac who want to configure these (or any web page) as your actual screensaver, you can use WebViewScreenSaver[0].

[0] https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver

I currently have it running on a Raspberry Pi in the closet: it's connected to my wife's Google Photos account as well as my own, with about 500k photos+videos in total. All other computers in the house connect to it (using this tool), so we have randomized screensavers from our Google Photos accounts in multiple rooms. It's definitely become a "how did we ever live without this?" tool for the family.

https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver

I tried it with this "web page as a screensaver" app and it worked perfectly.

macOS only though - I couldn't find a Windows one.

Using the amazing WebViewScreensaver: https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver, you can make any webpage URL a screensaver! It works best with any cool webGL effects you can find, some of which can be found on Codepen.

I'm open to contributing it. It'd save me the trouble of making and maintaining screensavers myself, which is a very common request. The struggle to support a Mac screensaver for more than a few years at a time has already swallowed a great Matrix project before, mathew's RedPill ( https://github.com/lpar/RedPill ).

One important matter I haven't investigated yet is what constraints there are on GL in xscreensaver as a whole. My project is basically a shader sandwich, but there are alternative approaches a port can take if that's untenable.

I also sincerely like jwz's cheeky competitiveness with other screensaver authors— when xscreensaver 4.11 was released, he captioned it, "Watch as GLMatrix makes RedPill scream for mercy." If I port to xscreensaver I'll make sure to continue the tradition.

shout out to screensaver Redpill https://github.com/lpar/RedPill