You can also install more wallpaper type, there is one for videos.
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True you are right here, didnt knew that now everything can be hidden. So for my case this is fine.
The suggestion by @jpetso works well. I had to let go of my “Picture of the Day” background but I suppose I can live without looking at pretty pictures for the 2 seconds it takes to unlock my system.
I’d also caution anyone against using Energy saving → Turn off screen because OLED monitors regularly perform pixel refresh cycles when on standby mode and you’d be interrupting them if you wake the system
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I’ve tried the latest Fedora, Kubuntu, and Manjaro installations and every single time I use screen locker the screen does not come back on. I’ve researched for days trying different kernels and nvidia drivers and even the open source driver. I’m not that technical but I really hope this is solved soon or a screensaver is made. Windows is freaking perfect, black screensaver just displays a black image and with HDR, my monitor appears off but is on. I move the mouse a fraction and instantaneously I’m back into Windows and my desktop. So far my Linux experience has been ruined because screen locker decided to force me to leave my OLED on all the time. My hardware is an intel i5-13600k, 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4. MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4, Samsung Pro 980 2TB, and EVGA 3090 FTW3. I’ve tried kernels 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, and 6.11 and every nvidia driver I could get to load. The only solution I’ve found is spamming CTRL+ALT+F1-F7 to get the screen back on.
Linux is about having choices. You can have a Gnome desktop or you can have KDE as a desktop. You can have a GUI or you can just have a terminal. You can use Ubuntu or you can use Fedora (and of course any other distro or desktop). You have so many more choices and options with Linux, just as long as your choice isn’t to have a screensaver. Why is this? Ok, YOU don’t want one but that doesn’t mean that hundreds or thousands of others don’t want one. Why is it so hard to understand this?
Linux used to be known for it’s great screensavers but now you want it to just be a bland black screen or a slide show. While the slide show is nice it’s not what many of us want. I don’t care if it’s necessary anymore, I want a screensaver. One that has animations. One like Electric Sheep.
Bring back the screensaver, please.
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I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone being against the idea of animated screensavers.
Such a feature would however require someone with the motivation to do the work to add that. The lack of it is more because no one has stepped up to do so, rather than because it has been blocked.
Anyone is welcome to Get Involved, and indeed “scratching the itch” for a fix or feature that one personally wants is often how people get started contributing! 
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I would definitely love an easier way to add a screensaver, as I’ve seen mentioned by the option suggested by @jpetso or @Sarwono
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If you are going to force everyone to switch to wayland by plasma 6.8, then the least you could do is offer a proper replacement for xscreensaver. among other things.
If you need xscreensaver’s effects then this might be helpful
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No one forces you to do anything.
It’s important to realise that you can use Plasma for free. And you cannot have any expectations for anything if it is free. That is always true. You can, for example, pay with your time and maintain a fork of Plasma which retains X11 support if you want. No one stands in your way, but also, no one is forced to use your fork then, are they? Nor does anyone expect anything from you if they happen to use said fork.
Welcome to Open Source Software!
Yea I get it, the Wayland cult has said many times that they don’t see any value in a screensaver, and that’s why they don’t implement any kind of support for one. But some of us have legitimate needs to be able to SAVE our SCREENS from burn in without locking the PC. Namely because Wayland also doesn’t support unattended access, so the only way to maintain unattended access to a Linux machine that has to run Wayland is to not lock it. Even just being able to blank the screen without having it lock it would work, but that is apparently specifically blocked when using KDE Plasma with Wayland. So the only option currently is to leave the displays on and not blanked with no screensaver all day every day if we need unattended access to the desktop environment for any reason. These problems don’t exist under X11, but we can’t continue to use X11 anymore. It’s almost like not everyone has the same needs.
This is already a thing. Settings → Screen Locking → Lock screen automatically: Never && Settings → Power Management → Turn off screen: (choose duration)
In addition under Screen Locking → Configure Appearance, you can set Wallpaper type: Slideshow and set it to change every x minutes to prevent burn-in, which effectively allows the screenlocker (with Lock: never) to act as a password-less screensaver.
This has all been discussed in this thread previously; is there something about this setup specifically that doesn’t work for you?
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No that doesn’t work. You can set it all day but the screen will never actually blank because Plasma6 doesn’t want to blank the screen unless it can also lock it. And even if it did, the lock screen is still the lock screen even without a password and will still block unattended access.
Then perhaps you’ve found an actual bug. I tested it again right now, and it works fine on my setup; screens turned off after 1 minute and there was no password prompt when I woke them back up.
There’s a big difference between “you don’t care about this issue” and “I am encountering a bug and it isn’t working correctly”. Everyone is encouraged to file bugs when appropriate so we can try to fix them. 
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