scr33ny

OLED-friendly screensaver for Linux / Wayland with customization support.

scr33ny

The screen goes black. OLED pixels turn off. Burn-in protection kicks in.

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Features

• Pure black by default — all OLED pixels off, near-zero power draw
• Anti burn-in shift — content shifts by a few pixels every N minutes
• Screensavers — blank · GIF animation · static image · text animation
• Widgets — digital/analog clock · date · weather
• Wayland-native — winit + softbuffer, no Xorg required
• TOML config — one readable file, no boilerplate

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Install

Pre-built binary (recommended)

Download the latest binary from Releases:

# x86_64 (most desktops/laptops)
curl -Lo scr33ny https://github.com/kilyabin/scr33ny/releases/latest/download/scr33ny-x86_64-linux
chmod +x scr33ny
sudo mv scr33ny /usr/local/bin/

# ARM64 (Raspberry Pi 4+, etc.)
curl -Lo scr33ny https://github.com/kilyabin/scr33ny/releases/latest/download/scr33ny-aarch64-linux
chmod +x scr33ny
sudo mv scr33ny /usr/local/bin/

Runtime requirements: Wayland compositor, libwayland-client, libxkbcommon.
These are present on any Wayland desktop (Sway, Hyprland, GNOME Wayland, KDE Wayland).

Build from source

Requires a Rust toolchain (rustup.rs) and Wayland dev headers:

# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S wayland libxkbcommon pkgconf

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt install libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev pkg-config

git clone https://github.com/kilyabin/scr33ny
cd scr33ny
cargo install --path .

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Usage

scr33ny                            # launch with default config
scr33ny --config ~/my.toml         # custom config path
scr33ny --monitor 1                # display on monitor 1
scr33ny monitors                   # list connected monitors
scr33ny config-path                # print default config location
scr33ny daemon                     # start idle-based auto-launch daemon

Exit: press Q or Esc.

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Quick config

mkdir -p ~/.config/scr33ny
cp config.toml.example ~/.config/scr33ny/config.toml
$EDITOR ~/.config/scr33ny/config.toml

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Screensaver types

blank (default)

Pure black. Best for OLED.

[screensaver]
type = "blank"

gif

Animated GIF, looped.

[screensaver]
type  = "gif"
path  = "~/.config/scr33ny/cat.gif"
scale = "fit"                        # fit | fill | original

image

Static image — PNG, JPEG, BMP, WebP.

[screensaver]
type  = "image"
path  = "~/.config/scr33ny/wallpaper.png"
scale = "fill"

text

Text with animation.

[screensaver]
type      = "text"
content   = "scr33ny"
font_size = 96.0
color     = "#ffffff"
animation = "float"                  # float | typewriter | fade

Animation	Description
float	Lissajous orbit — smooth, non-repeating, maximum OLED protection
typewriter	Types characters one by one, then restarts
fade	Fade in → hold → fade out cycle

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Widgets

Each widget is a [[widgets]] block in your config.

Clock

[[widgets]]
type         = "clock"
style        = "digital"             # digital | analog
font_size    = 72.0
color        = "#ffffff"
show_seconds = true

[widgets.position]
x = "center"                         # left | center | right | <0-100>
y = "center"                         # top  | center | bottom | <0-100>

Date

[[widgets]]
type      = "date"
font_size = 28.0
color     = "#888888"
format    = "%A, %B %d"              # strftime format

[widgets.position]
x = "center"
y = 62.0                             # 62% from top

Weather

Requires a free OpenWeatherMap API key.

[[widgets]]
type      = "weather"
api_key   = "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
location  = "Moscow"
units     = "metric"                 # metric (°C) | imperial (°F)
font_size = 22.0
color     = "#cccccc"

[widgets.position]
x = "right"
y = "top"

Weather refreshes every 30 minutes in the background.

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Anti burn-in

Two layers of protection:

1. Screensaver content moves — float animation follows a Lissajous curve so the same pixel is never lit for long.
2. Global pixel shift — the entire frame is offset by a few pixels every N seconds, cycling through 4 corner positions.

[display]
burn_shift     = 2     # pixels to shift
shift_interval = 120   # seconds between shifts

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Idle daemon

With swayidle/hypridle/other idle (recommended)

Example:

# ~/.config/sway/config
exec swayidle -w \
  timeout 300 'scr33ny' \
  resume   'killall scr33ny'

Built-in daemon

[daemon]
enabled      = true
idle_timeout = 300

scr33ny daemon

Uses swayidle if available; falls back to a simple sleep loop otherwise.

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Fonts

scr33ny searches common system font paths automatically (DejaVu, Noto, Liberation, Ubuntu, Hack, FreeSans, user fonts in ~/.local/share/fonts/).

If no font is found:

# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt install fonts-dejavu

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Full config reference

See docs/config.md.

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Project structure

src/
├── main.rs              CLI entry point
├── config.rs            TOML config (serde)
├── canvas.rs            Pixel buffer, drawing primitives, font loading
├── app.rs               Event loop, render orchestration
├── screensaver/
│   ├── blank.rs         Pure black
│   ├── gif.rs           GIF animation (frame timing)
│   ├── image_ss.rs      Static image
│   └── text.rs          Text animations
└── widget/
    ├── clock.rs         Digital and analog clock
    ├── date.rs          Date display
    └── weather.rs       OpenWeatherMap widget (async)

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License

MIT