How do I enable the screensaver animation on Budgie like on XFCE

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I switched to the budgie desktop environment on Manjaro a few days ago and I was captivated by the contrast of its environment, and how modern it felt.
Ever since I moved onto Budgie, I’ve missed the screensaver animation on XFCE, so I went on the package manager and looked up the screensaver for Budgie and
It was already installed but I haven’t figured out the way to enable the screensaver animation, so could anyone help me out.

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Hi @levart,
I wonder whether you could read the following posts, in order to solve your problem:
‘budgie-screensaver: screen saver and locker | budgie-screensaver Commands | Man Pages | ManKier’

‘budgie-screensaver and how do you use it? - Solus Forum’

‘GitHub - BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-screensaver: Budgie Screensaver is a fork of old gnome screensaver for purposes of providing an authentication prompt on wake.’

‘[SOLVED] xscreensaver on Budgie Desktop /Arch / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums’

‘Budgie 10.7 Released | Buddies of Budgie’

Hope it help, regards.

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I’ve already got it, but I haven’t found any way to enable it, bruh . I went on settings

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How did you do that?

Like described here?

Install Desktop Environments - Manjaro

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Wdym? I actually got it from the updates this week, at least, that’s when it showed up on my login as an optional session to boot into.

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What did you install?
What was the desktop you where running/had installed before?
What was the base DE onto which you added Budgie?

I want to know how you got to where you are now.
You probably had Gnome installed and added Budgie to it - but I don’t want to guess.
Or was it Xfce, since it’s mentioned in the topic title? Again, I would like to know, not guess.

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Please use proper English, not cellphone text speak. Not everyone here is a native English speaker, and abbreviations like that will not be understood by everyone.

Then you must have installed something that pulled in the Budgie packages as a dependency, because the Budgie community edition was dropped a few years ago already, due to nobody on the team having enough time anymore to maintain the ISO.

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@levart This is an official support forum, not a social network. Even subreddits have rules and guidelines. I’ve already linked you the rules and relevant tutorials in one of your other threads.

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