I stumbled on a beautiful screen saver for my Ubuntu box today called Eternity which features several flavors of Ubuntu plus a default animation as well. The screen saver is called Eternity and the flavors are plain old vanilla Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and oddly enough, the Ubuntu Satanic release.
The long and short of it is, it looks really nice. Here’s how you can install it.
You’ll need to pop open a command line (Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal Session)
Lets pop in there and edit our sources.list file to include Eternity’s repositories.
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Now you’ve got a graphical text editor up and running. Go to the bottom and paste this in, then save it.
# Eternity Screensaver
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/eternity/ubuntu feisty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/eternity/ubuntu feisty main
You can change feisty in the above line to gutsy or hardy as well.
Now to install it type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install eternal-ubuntu eternal-studio eternal-damnation
Now you can go to System-> Screensaver and select the Eternity screen saver you want.
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September 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Hey, I added the repository under hardy and updated, but no dice! Apt can’t find anything resembling eternal, any tips cause I don’t wanna add the feisty repo.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Yeah - go to this site and I believe you can download the screen saver and the various plugins individually.
http://parker1.co.uk/eternity/
Ben
May 4th, 2009 at 2:33 am
nice post. .i have tried ur post.n now my screen saver looked nice
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:15 pm
I followed these steps on my Ubuntu 9.10, I get the installed screen savers in the list of installed screen savers but none of them work.