[Portland] xdg-screensaver.in

Bryce Harrington bryce at osdl.org
Wed May 10 18:34:50 PDT 2006


On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:35:38PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:19 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
> 
> > The other way is associate blocking the screensaver with a particular
> > window.  As long as the window is open, the screensaver is blocked.  If
> > the app crashes, the will window will close, and the screensaver will
> > unblock.
> 
> We've already implemented an extension that lets an application disable
> the screen saver while it is connected; when the application terminates,
> the screen saver will be re-enabled.

By chance is this something that can be accessed via a command line
tool?  For xdg-utils we're trying to provide bash tools that wrapper
different desktop environments (and differing versions of X). 

Bryce


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