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Bug 333280 - Activates while playing game, watching movies, etc
Activates while playing game, watching movies, etc
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-screensaver
Classification: Deprecated
Component: daemon
2.13.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-screensaver maintainers
gnome-screensaver maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-03 17:39 UTC by Dana Olson
Modified: 2006-03-14 00:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Dana Olson 2006-03-03 17:39:43 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Gnome-screensaver doesn't appear to notice when I'm playing a game, such as
Frozen Bubble, nor if I'm watching a movie in Xine, and instead it activates anyhow.

This is an annoyance for Xine, and a problem for anyone who plays Frozen Bubble,
as they can't exit from the screensaver without losing their progress.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Run Frozen Bubble or put on a movie in Xine.
2. After 10 minutes or whatever your setting, the screensaver comes on.
3. Profit?


Actual results:
The screensaver comes on, ignoring my movie playing or keypresses in the game.

Expected results:
No screensaver should come on.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2006-03-06 18:26:19 UTC 
The best way is for these games and movie players to inhibit the screensaver directly.  There is some information about this in the FAQ:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Comment 2 Paul Sladen 2006-03-14 00:16:06 UTC 
I think this is a bug about the lack of a compatible "xscreensaver-command --poke" which is something we'll hopefully fix with a glue package in Ubuntu (eg. as it's not possible to update commerical/binary games and the like that are already out there in the wild).

Dana: you also said on one of the Ubuntu lists that you'd filed a bug about gnome-screensaver fading randomly in the middle of typing (believed to be related to suspend)--- ( https://launchpad.net/bugs/33523 ).