Ribbons Screensaver

Famous windows-like Ribbons screensaver made with js and Electron wrapped for multi platform support

Minimum OS requirements

Windows 7/2008, Linux with modern kernel version (5.x)

📦 Download

Platform	Type	Download link	File size
🖥 Windows x64	.exe	Download	80.1 MB
🐧 Debian/Ubuntu Linux x64	.deb	Download	77.1 MB
🐧 RHEL/Fedora Linux x64	.rpm	Download	77.7 MB
🐧 Linux AppImage x64	.AppImage	Download	107 MB
🌐 Linux Archive x64	.tar.gz	Download	102 MB
🌐 Windows Archive x64	.zip	Download	106 MB

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📂 How to install?

1. Choose you platform distrib.
2. Click download.
3. Follow installation.

Supported settings

All app settings are saved in the local user folder in file config.json:

• Windows 7 and newer: %AppData%\Ribbons screensaver
• Linux ~/.config/Ribbons screensaver

Usage

This app is created to be used as screensaver with idle system detect to run fullscreen animation. For current alpha version it isn't supposed to be:

• "native" windows scr app as there are no native winapi preview and settings implementation
• "native" linux xscreensaver app as there are no plans to develop something for xscreensaver api

So for both platforms make sure to disable "native" screensaver to prevent conflicts!

After app startup check it's settings in tray menu:

For developers

Build depends on the platform as it uses the system idle detect function.

For Windows:

choco install python312 visualstudio2019community visualstudio2019-workload-nativedesktop visualstudio2019buildtools windows-sdk-10.0
pip install setuptools
git clone https://github.com/drlight17/ribbons-electron
cd ./ribbons-electron
cp ./package.json.windows ./package.json

For Linux:

apt install libxss-dev pkg-config
git clone https://github.com/drlight17/ribbons-electron
cd ./ribbons-electron
cp ./package.json.linux ./package.json

Platform independent steps:

npm install -g node-gyp
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
npx electron-rebuild

To run dev app use:

npm start 

In dev mode config path includes '-dev'

To build distributive use:

npm run dist

If there are any module errors try to npx electron-rebuild before every npm start or npm run dist.

Also check package.json.linux and package.json.windows

Special thanks to:

• madve2 for his electron-screensaver-seed repo that was partly used to create initial Electron app
• fadyehabamer for his Ribbons-Screensaver repo that is the basis for graphics (he "failed with PWA", I made it with Electron =))) )

All rights belongs to their authors!