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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/11/15 03:02 PM, Reuben Thomas
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 November 2015 at 22:53, Norman
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It seems, then, that
XDG is able to suspend the gnome screen saver/locker, but
gnome does not expose this ability in gnome's public
interface. I should be knocking on gnome's door, ...
sound right?</blockquote>
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style="font-size:small;display:inline">An alternative
is to use Caffeine, which adds this functionality, based
on xdg-screensaver. (Currently it doesn't work for all
DEs supported by xdg-screensaver, but it does work in
particular for GNOME!)<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://launchpad.net/caffeine">https://launchpad.net/caffeine</a></div>
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Thanks for the pointer to caffeine. This works for me -- no need to
install yet a new daemon to do this.<br>
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