Flying Toasters screensaver in latest Ubuntu

By on June 29, 2010

For whatever reason, the beautiful flying toasters screensaver is no longer part of the default set. Luckily, it can easily be reinstalled as part of the xscreensaver-gl-extra package. Just run the following:

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-gl-extra

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6 responses to “Flying Toasters screensaver in latest Ubuntu”

  1. Mike
    Mike October 5, 2010 at 2:36 pm | | Reply

    Hooray for Flying toasters! I remember this back in the old win 3.11 days – Now I can use it on a real operating system – yay!

  2. maycatdecal
    maycatdecal October 26, 2010 at 1:57 am | | Reply

    I am a student, I was bolg want to get acquainted with friends the world. Wish you success.

  3. somegirl
    somegirl November 7, 2010 at 12:26 pm | | Reply

    Thank you, very useful information. I already missed my flying toasters from intrepid ibex. :)

  4. IDIC
    IDIC April 7, 2011 at 12:30 pm | | Reply

    Thanks! Thats cool. I'm loving Linux more and more everyday!

  5. peter
    peter October 2, 2011 at 8:36 am | | Reply

    ooh, back home again!!! Thanks

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