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On 05/25/2014 01:45 PM, Alberts
Muktupāvels wrote:
The Caffeine project has two PPA's, one with stable releases: https://launchpad.net/~caffeine-developers/+archive/ppa and the other for prior development versions: https://launchpad.net/~caffeine-developers/+archive/caffeine-dev The older iterations included some flash controls that never did work right. Beginning with Saucy (their version 2.5) the flash controls were stripped out but the user was able to add specific processes that would disable the screensaver, but I've always just used the manual toggling to either disable or enable the screensaver. Their dev version 2.6+555~ubuntu14.04.1 basically stripped out everything but the ability to manually toggle screensaver disabled or enabled (it does however create a crash report at start-up that can just be ignored). Then the newest version 2.7* no longer even displays an applet, it just disables the screensaver automatically in fullscreen windows, but it only works in Unity. The older versions worked in Flashback, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu. Caffeine's new maintainer gave the heads up for forking the project if desired: https://bugs.launchpad.net/caffeine/+bug/1321750/comments/8 I suppose if we did want to fork Caffeine their version 2.6* would be a good starting point to restore only the function that gnome-inhibit-applet provided in GNOME 2. I piddled with Mate in Utopic and I see that they forked the old gnome-inhibit-applet -> mate-inhibit-applet but I doubt that would be useful to us. I copied the Saucy version of Caffeine to my own PPA: https://launchpad.net/~lbsolost/+archive/ppa And I changed the version name to Trusty but I still need to test it to make sure I didn't break anything. Of course any given Trusty update may break the usage anyway. Lance
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