Re: Replacing xscreensaver

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:27, Joergen Scheibengruber wrote:
> Am Son, 2003-05-04 um 18.12 schrieb Christian Rose:
> > xscreensaver as is currently used in GNOME seems to have a multitude of
> > problems. For what I know, it's only used because of the lack of any
> > better replacement, and there seems to be no progress in the problematic
> > areas, which is kind of worrying.
> > 
> > The problematic areas are at least two major ones:
> > 
> [...]
> 
> 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).

Totem uses the XTest extension to create a new event every now and then,
see src/scrsaver.[ch]. It should be fairly self-explanatory.

Cheers

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>