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Screen savers

The Screen savers tab of the Display section, /?tab=screensaver, provides six alternatives to LG's default:

  • Clock
  • Starfield
  • Fireworks
  • Bokeh, soft circles of light drifting in and out
  • Harmonograph, pendulum ribbons of light weaving and fading on black
  • Panel vitals, showing the TV's own panel hours and refresher countdown

Each mode offers dim and bright variants, and visual elements continuously drift across the screen to prevent OLED burn-in or image retention.

A firmware update restores the LG default.

On webOS 12 and later they are experimental: the tab shows a switch above the list that turns them on, after a warning, and until then only LG's default can be chosen. See Experimental features for why.

Start screen saver asks the TV for its screen saver. Some TVs accept the request and then refuse it; a G3 on webOS 9.2.2 refused every one, its own idle screen saver included. There the dashboard opens the screen saver itself, unless something is playing full screen or playback cannot be checked. Any key on the remote, including Home and the coloured buttons, or a second press of the button closes it. A failed close leaves it tracked so another press can retry. The TV does not know about a screen saver opened this way: its power state stays On, in the dashboards and in Home Assistant, and watch time counts the app beneath it. The Screen Saver sensor does show it.