screensaver
Sign in to saveAlso known as screen saver, screensaver software
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Within Vinony's link graph, screensaver is referenced by 235 other articles, and connects out to Atari 8-bit family, screen burn-in and mathematics.
Vinony files it under 1970s neologisms, Computer-related introductions in the 1970s and Display technology.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
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- software
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A screensaver (or screen saver) is software that controls a monitor of the host computer with the intent of preventing screen burn-in for a screen susceptible to it. Generally, a screensaver starts controlling a monitor when the computer has been idle for a designated period of time and fills the screen either with black (all pixels off) or with changing graphics that tend to prevent each pixel from being on for a long time. Although monitors were commonly constructed with screen technology that was susceptible to burn-in (CRT and plasma), most modern monitors are LCD which are not. Notably, another modern technology, OLED, is susceptible.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “screensaver” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.