anima-otheros / cros-screensaver

A Chrome Extension providing a screensaver with custom photo sources. Developed with Polymer 3 Web Components.

Photo Screen Saver Chrome Extension

This extension displays a screensaver composed of a slide show of photos from multiple sources. Supported photo sources include:

• Your Google Photos and Albums - Note: Shared Albums are not supported
• Some background photos used by Chromecast
• Several sources from reddit
• Interesting photos from Flickr

Note: Photos from the local file system are not supported.

Many options are available to control the appearance of the slide show, including:

• Wait time after machine becomes idle to display screensaver
• Between photo time interval
• Photo display mode - (e.g., letterbox, fill screen)
• Photo transition animations - (e.g., fade, scale up)
• A scheduler to control when the screensaver, display, and computer should remain on
• Do not display over full screen Chrome windows (e.g., YouTube, Netflix)
• Show on all displays
• Display current weather
• Display time

Works great on all platforms but may be especially useful for your Chromebook.

It is free and advertising free.

It is implemented using Vanilla JavaScript and Polymer 3.

View in Chrome Web Store

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