Bug 188317

Summary:	Add mechanism for apps to disable screensaver temporarily. And use it everywhere
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	gnome-screensaver	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	jmccann, rvokal
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Description Bill Nottingham 2006-04-07 20:13:56 UTC

So, I'm sitting here watching Max's Fedora presentation. About 5 minutes in...
the screensaver kicks in on the top of the slides.

gnome-screensaver should have a d-bus (or whatever) interface that allows people
to temporarily disable it. (It may already have this, so see the next point....)

OpenOffice.org, MagicPoint, totem, *whatever*... should use it if/when it exists.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-04-07 20:14:55 UTC

Filing here instead of upstream as, even if the feature is an upstream issue, we
need some way to track all the Fedora stuff that needs to hook into this.

Comment 2 jmccann 2006-04-26 15:46:14 UTC

Here's how we do it in Totem (updated to support 2.14 and 2.15 APIs):
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/totem/src/totem-scrsaver.c?view=markup

For apps that don't want to DBUS dependency you can do
"gnome-screensaver-command --poke" once every few seconds or something.

Hopefully, we can make this an org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver interface at some
point which may help convince upstream packages to use it.