XFCE - XScreenSaver is REALLY ugly

[KitchiRUs]

Hi,

I've been 'blinging up' my system, and now I have it looking all nice and pretty (to my eye), except for XScreenSaver. I've read a couple of posts on how to theme it with the fonts and images that you want... but I was looking for something more flashy. (Kind of like Ubuntu 11.x/12.x lock screen)

Does anyone know where I can get such a screensaver manager/lockscreen thing?

[secipolla]

If you use slock, it doesn't show any password box but you can't configure it (like locking automatically, or some time after blanking).

[KitchiRUs]

Well, it isn't really the password box that's the issue. If I could have a nicer looking password box + lock screen, that'd be perfect.

[secipolla]

I didn't understand then what you find ugly about xscreensaver if it isn't the password box.

[marco765]

yeah the unlock dialog isn't the prettiest, but it seems it was a trade-off for security

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html

i've always liked the old-school-ish-ness of xscreensaver, especially noseguy