I think you should look into Manuels projects, he has some animations which can be used as screensavers or animated backgrounds written in Rust. https://git.sr.ht/~mstoeckl/rwalkbg https://git.sr.ht/~mstoeckl/shaderbg
Screensavers from xscreensaver are written in C though.
I totally get the...
I don't care if they are necessary or not. Were desktop wallpapers ever necessary? So why do we still have them?
I was looking into screensavers on wayland, and by now this is indeed possible. Thanks to the awesome work of a person called Manuel Stoeckl. But it is rather obscure and therefore I...