Re: Wake screen saver

From: jcupitt gmail com
To: Paul Stelzig <Paul Stelzig reell com>
Cc: "gtk-app-devel-list gnome org" <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Wake screen saver
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:51:53 +0000

Hi Paul,

On 18 March 2013 21:22, Paul Stelzig <Paul Stelzig reell com> wrote:

Is there a way make the screen saver wake up without a key press or mouse movement?  My program is written 
in C with GTK+ 3.0 I'm running on Linux Mint 13 with the mate desktop.  The program is monitoring a inputs 
from a DIO card, and in normal operation the user isn't going to be using the keyboard or mouse.


I guess you mean stop the screensaver kicking in and hiding your
window? Yes, you can send a dbus message to disable the gnome
screensaver temporarily:

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#I.27m_developing_an_application_that_has_a_fullscreen_mode.__Is_there_a_way_that_I_can_disable_the_screensaver.3F

John

References:
- Wake screen saver
  - From: Paul Stelzig

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