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title="NEW - xdg-screensaver reset silently fails on gnome"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97001">97001</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>xdg-screensaver reset silently fails on gnome
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<th>Product</th>
<td>Portland
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<th>Version</th>
<td>1.1.0 rc3
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>xdg-utils
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>portland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>vithos@gmail.com
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<pre>`xdg-screensaver reset` does nothing on gnome but fails silently, returning
exit code 0
<a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/scripts/xdg-screensaver.in?id=066b46418f454c0b7e1b5e1478f5f94d91276c14#n533">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/scripts/xdg-screensaver.in?id=066b46418f454c0b7e1b5e1478f5f94d91276c14#n533</a>
If you add --print-reply you can at least get a non-zero exit status and this
message:
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method
'SimulateUserActivity'
I believe this is the where gnome rejects the call:
<a href="https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/blob/f8db21e27f89e58e1439be42052f12d5bdf8ecc1/plugins/screensaver-proxy/gsd-screensaver-proxy-manager.c#L257-L258">https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/blob/f8db21e27f89e58e1439be42052f12d5bdf8ecc1/plugins/screensaver-proxy/gsd-screensaver-proxy-manager.c#L257-L258</a>
I don't know if there's a replacement API, I couldn't find one.
I'm using Arch Linux,
extra/gnome-shell 3.20.3-1 (gnome) [installed]
extra/xdg-utils 1.1.1-3 [installed]
Though the version reported by xdg-screensaver is different:
❯ xdg-screensaver --version
xdg-screensaver 1.1.0 rc3</pre>
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