Xscreensaver

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movie as screen saver

pacman -Sv xscreensaver
  • need to run it to make the initial config file
xscreensaver-demo

xfce should autostart it with startxfce4 if not:

Simply installing the xscreensaver package is not enough to have it run automatically. The xscreensaver program has to be started, which is commonly done by the desktop environment via a line in ~/.xinitrc as follows:

/usr/bin/xscreensaver -no-splash &

run xscreensaver whenever:

xscreensaver-command --lock

Notes

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XScreenSaver