Ribbons Screensaver

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

Minimum OS requirements

MacOS 10.15 Catalina (since 0.2.2-alpha), Windows 7/2008, Linux with modern kernel version (5.x)

📦 Download

Platform	Type	Download link	File size
🖥 Windows x64	.msi	Download	96.7 MB
🐧 Debian/Ubuntu Linux x64	.deb	Download	77.2 MB
🐧 RHEL/Fedora Linux x64	.rpm	Download	77.7 MB
🐧 Linux AppImage x64	.AppImage	Download	107 MB
🐧 Linux FlatPak x64	.flatpak	Download	78.8 MB
🌐 Linux Archive x64	.tar.gz	Download	102 MB
🌐 Windows Archive x64	.zip	Download	114 MB
🍎 macOS DMG x64	.dmg	Download	103 MB
🍎 macOS DMG arm64	.dmg	Download	99 MB

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📂 How to install?

1. Choose your 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
• MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/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
• "native" macos screensaver app as there are no plans to develop something for Objective-C and Cocoa framework

So for all the 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

For Macos:

git clone https://github.com/drlight17/ribbons-electron
cd ./ribbons-electron
cp ./package.json.windows ./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. Pay attention: package.json.windows should be used for macos development and build.

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!