screensaver

A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used, originally intended to prevent screenburn.

I configured my screensaver to appear after only two minutes, because I enjoyed watching it so much.

The background picture of a computer, smartphone, or similar mobile device.

But she changed her screensaver, which was a photo of Julian eating scrambled eggs—he was smiling, holding his fork away from himself, as if he were waving the eggs at her—and replaced it with a photo of Olivia, looking up from her desk […]

If he wanted praise, or sympathy, or the chance to talk over a sensitive subject, he turned to me. A friend told me that she sat down at her computer one day to discover that her husband had changed her screensaver to read: “Be nice to Lloyd.