Network Aware Screensavers?

borgquite asks: "Does anyone know of any network aware screensavers? I am running a school network and would love to be able to have a screensaver where the other computers communicate with each other in some way - for example, if you could have a marquee where the message gets passed from screen to screen. The best I can find is n 0 time, but is there anything else a bit more exciting?"

Comments

Sonar on X

[EvilMal]

The Sonar screensaver for X allows you to set it up to ping other systems on the network. I believe you can make it ping the whole network. The other systems are shows as blips on a radar. The higher the ping, the further away they are, I believe.

Re:I hate to be a nay-sayer ...

[jafuser]

Understand that these 'screen savers' really don't save your screen, current monitors die before any real burn in happens, but that is a different story.

I've seen a lot of people say this, but I spent some time researching used monitors, and I've found that burn-in is still a problem even on newer monitors. Here is an example.

Or read the last FAQ on this page.

I'll admit the problem has mostly (but not entirely) gone away with newer technology, but it is still worth running a screen saver/blanker and/or enabling the power saver mode to keep your monitor working it's best.