On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:27, Joergen Scheibengruber wrote: > If someone writes a new screensaver, then it would be really helpfull if > there was an usefull api/interface to disable the screensaver temporaly > (for movie-playback, games, tv-apps, etc.) At the moment every app does > it differently and the "one true way" suggested for xscreensaver is > simply horrible (You really have to get deaply involved with X - unless > you want to fork 1000s of xscreensaver-command processes). This is one of the situations where I see D-BUS being used... An app says "no screensaver please" and the screensaver daemon can disable itself. For xscreensaver, a proxy could be made to listen to the bus and do the correct magic to disable it correctly. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com jabber: ross jabber debian net www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
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