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spong
Asked: 2010-08-29 22:55:38 +0800 CST

Set Boinc as a screensaver

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I have a BOINC Manager installed contributing to World Community Grid.

Is there a way to set this to run as a screensaver visually in Ubuntu?

screensaver

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  1. Best Answer

    Unfortunately this is not an option for the Ubuntu/Linux version.

    (NB: It has been suggested that running the screensaver uses CPU power that could be used to contribute even more data!)

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  2. It looks like it is built in Boinc, but hasn't sucessfully been ported to the various distro's screensavers

    http://www.spy-hill.com/~myers/help/boinc/unix-screensaver.html

    http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7139

    Would be nice if this was enabled

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  3. I assume you do know that, but just to be sure: You are not trying to make BOINC work during the times that you don't use the computer yourself, or are you? Because you can configure that behaviour in the BOINC manager, even without it being the active screen saver.

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