2026-10-07 08:34 UTC
If you’re like me and trying to get #xscreensaver working on #macos27, this patch may help:
https://cdn.redezria.net/xscreensaver-maze-macos27.patch.gz
Basically MacOS 27 does some absolutely ass things to the window initialisation/deinitialisation that you have to account for. Thankfully because it’s just the window itself this *should* work on any of the screensavers with a similar edit… I’ve not done that because I only use Maze on my laptop as nothing has ever caught my attention as much before or since 😂 And this was a fun side quest.
I can’t help you if you use one of those desktop-image-based screensavers, I would bet there’s some new cursed nightmares down there for you to solve. Good luck I guess!
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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-10-07 17:28
@redezem@aus.social Thanks for this! I had been trying to reproduce some of the weird reports on macOS 27.0.1 with no luck. And... I can't reproduce this either. Do you have some trick to make it fail this way? (E.g. does the failure require multiple screens attached?)