has anyone written a miner screensaver? or perhaps a plugin for some other common screensavers?

reminds me of the openGL 3d screensaver on Windows NT early versions

would peg CPU at 100%

Screensaver? Is it 1996 again?

x-screensaver is basically the greatest software program ever written

mining in a screensaver makes sense for offices etc like this guy old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/gk9y1w/mining_monero

if your computer is otherwise idle a lot of the time, and you don't need it to do other heavy crunching while you're not interacting with it

don't laugh but my first freelance gigs were writing screensavers!

were any of them as good as the beziers one that comes with windows?

mining from a screensaver is a great idea

all my ideas are great ideas :P

"makes sense for offices" <--- laughs in corona

yeah, but seriously, it makes more sense to run xmrig as a service with low priority - no popups and user doesn't even have to log int

not as a screensaver

well... the Windows scheduler sucks pretty bad. you would still experience serious lag if it was always running, even with low priority

running as a service while user is logged out - sure, perfect.

maybe ... running as a persistent service, but with communication from a screensaver, that tells it to throttle down when a user is logged in and active

we would release in a couple days, would this be good to include?

if yes it needs a review + submodule update

selsta: I'm waiting for reviews

looks ok