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On 2008-11-02, Stepan Roh <stepan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
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> > As for implementing it, I looked into this once for Linux for one of my games
> > that is almost completely controlled by the gamepad - which didn't prevent
> > the screensaver from taking over the screen.
> > I think first of all it depends on which screensaver is used (xscreensaver,
> > kscreensaver, others?). Secondly for the one I looked into, the way to
> > disable it seemed to be sending repeated messages to the screensaver through
> > its message system (I got this from looking at the source for mplayer). I
> > suppose this can be done from a background thread but it sounds rather
> > annoying. On the other hand, it means we don't need to worry about restoring
> > the screensaver afterwards.
> > Of course, we can always document which screensavers we know how to disable
> > and say we accept fixes for others.
>
> What about
> http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-screensaver.html ?
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to do anything for the native X
screensaver system, which is the only one I actually care about
(anything other than blanking the screen is stupid).
I made the X port call XResetScreenSaver() every 10 seconds, which seems
to do the trick. I don't really know what the effect of that function
call is, as the man page says, and I'm quoting the whole thing here:
The XResetScreenSaver function resets the screen saver.
Nice.
Peter