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Bug 552209 - Provide a way to inhibit the screensaver via X11
Provide a way to inhibit the screensaver via X11
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 444927
Product: gnome-screensaver
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-screensaver maintainers
gnome-screensaver maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-14 10:58 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2009-08-21 03:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Sam Morris 2008-09-14 10:58:09 UTC 
I filed a bug against mplayer requesting that it learn how to talk with gnome-screensaver. I was (rather rudely) rebuffed, but one of the reasons given did make some sense:

Mplayer upstream claims that the dbus interface provided by gnome-screensaver is not useful, because there is no way for remote X11 clients to talk to the screensaver.
Comment 1 Alan Swanson 2008-12-19 23:11:42 UTC 
IDLETIME support has been implemented in bug 444927 for gnome-screensaver
2.25.2 which supports any XResetScreensaver function calls updating the last event time. I believe MPlayer now uses this call.

Note however that IDLETIME is only present in xorg-server 1.4 or newer and needs  with the following patch otherwise it pegs the CPU.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1f4fb0225b278d1cf4145aebeb0bdd23dc8f62d5
Comment 2 Sam Morris 2009-04-13 00:33:46 UTC 
I guess this bug can be closed now?
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2009-08-21 03:40:33 UTC 
Yup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444927 ***