Re: Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.  I'm difinitely no expert, but I'll try to answer.
The answer to question 1 is no.  The keyboard is handled differently in the Xsession and the console.
Most ORca users just disable the screen saver and lock the computer manually when needed.
You can do the same by going to system preferences screensaver.  Just uncheck the activate screensaver checkbox.

          Kenny
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:47:25PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Now that Orca really works great these days, I do have a logged in
> GNOME session on my workstation all the time.  However, since
> the braille support for gnome-terminal is still lacking
> a few things I really got used to as a long term syssadmin
> on the linux console with BRLTTY, I do not do all of my work inside GNOME.
> In fact, I spend maybe only 10% of my computer time in a GNOME session,
> the rest of the time I just use a plain Linux console to do remote
> admin work and all my emacs activities (mail, irc, editing source code...)
> 
> This usage pattern triggers an anoying problem here:  The X11
> screen saver has kicked in every time I switch back to my
> X11 console (Alt+F7).  While I understand why there is a password
> prompt, I do argue that the behaviour of the timeout detection
> of the X11 screen saver is broken, since it does not
> take into account keypresses that might have happened somewhere
> else (like on a text console).
> 
> Does anyone know if there is:
>  1.) A hack that I could use to fix this ASAP?
>  2.) A way to fix this permanently for everyone else (i.e., something we could
>      implement upstream so that console keypresses are taken into account
>      by default)?
> 
> 
> A typical situation is like:
>  1. I read something with FireFox and Orca on my X11 console (Alt+F7).
>  2. I get distracted and need to do something in a command-shell, so
>     I switch to a free text console, e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1.
>  3. I work there for half an hour or more, but I do something, i.e., the
>     keyboard constantly clicks away...
>  4. I finish and want to continue reading that website, so I
>     switch back to X11 (Alt+F7).
>  5. Here, the screen saver has kicked in and I am asked to enter
>     my user password to "unlock" the screen again.
> 
> This costs unnecessary time and typing.  Ideally, the screen
> saver would only kick in if there really was no activity on the keyboard
> or with the mouse in a defined time period, no matter if the
> keypress happened inside X11 or not.
> 
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