Re: Replacing xscreensaver



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
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