[PATCH wayland-protocols v4] Add screensaver idle inhibitor protocol

Jonas Ådahl jadahl at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 08:40:15 UTC 2016


As one probably already noticed, this was pushed earlier and was
included in wayland-protocols 1.6.


Jonas

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 06:35:31PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> This interface allows disabling of screensaver/screenblanking on a
> per-surface basis.  As long as the surface remains visible and
> non-occluded it blocks the screensaver, etc. from activating on the
> output(s) that the surface is visible on.
> 
> To uninhibit, simply destroy the inhibitor object.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.org>
> ---
>  Makefile.am                                        |  1 +
>  unstable/idle-inhibit/README                       |  4 ++
>  unstable/idle-inhibit/idle-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 88 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 unstable/idle-inhibit/README
>  create mode 100644 unstable/idle-inhibit/idle-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index 71d2632..de691db 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ unstable_protocols =								\
>  	unstable/relative-pointer/relative-pointer-unstable-v1.xml		\
>  	unstable/pointer-constraints/pointer-constraints-unstable-v1.xml	\
>  	unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v1.xml			                \
> +	unstable/idle-inhibit/idle-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml			\
>  	$(NULL)
>  
>  stable_protocols =								\
> diff --git a/unstable/idle-inhibit/README b/unstable/idle-inhibit/README
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..396e871
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/unstable/idle-inhibit/README
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +Screensaver inhibition protocol
> +
> +Maintainers:
> +Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com>
> diff --git a/unstable/idle-inhibit/idle-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml b/unstable/idle-inhibit/idle-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..70372fc
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/unstable/idle-inhibit/idle-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml
> @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> +<protocol name="idle_inhibit_unstable_v1">
> +
> +  <copyright>
> +    Copyright © 2015 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
> +
> +    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> +    copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> +    to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> +    the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
> +    and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> +    Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> +
> +    The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
> +    paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
> +    Software.
> +
> +    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> +    IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> +    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
> +    THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
> +    LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> +    FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> +    DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> +  </copyright>
> +
> +  <interface name="zwp_idle_inhibit_manager_v1" version="1">
> +    <description summary="control behavior when display idles">
> +      This interface permits inhibiting the idle behavior such as screen
> +      blanking, locking, and screensaving.  The client binds the idle manager
> +      globally, then creates idle-inhibitor objects for each surface.
> +
> +      Warning! The protocol described in this file is experimental and
> +      backward incompatible changes may be made. Backward compatible changes
> +      may be added together with the corresponding interface version bump.
> +      Backward incompatible changes are done by bumping the version number in
> +      the protocol and interface names and resetting the interface version.
> +      Once the protocol is to be declared stable, the 'z' prefix and the
> +      version number in the protocol and interface names are removed and the
> +      interface version number is reset.
> +    </description>
> +
> +    <request name="destroy" type="destructor">
> +      <description summary="destroy the idle inhibitor object">
> +	This destroys the inhibit manager.
> +      </description>
> +    </request>
> +
> +    <request name="create_inhibitor">
> +      <description summary="create a new inhibitor object">
> +	Create a new inhibitor object associated with the given surface.
> +      </description>
> +      <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="zwp_idle_inhibitor_v1"/>
> +      <arg name="surface" type="object" interface="wl_surface"
> +	   summary="the surface that inhibits the idle behavior"/>
> +    </request>
> +
> +  </interface>
> +
> +  <interface name="zwp_idle_inhibitor_v1" version="1">
> +    <description summary="context object for inhibiting idle behavior">
> +      An idle inhibitor prevents the output that the associated surface is
> +      visible on from being set to a state where it is not visually usable due
> +      to lack of user interaction (e.g. blanked, dimmed, locked, set to power
> +      save, etc.)  Any screensaver processes are also blocked from displaying.
> +
> +      If the surface is destroyed, unmapped, becomes occluded, loses
> +      visibility, or otherwise becomes not visually relevant for the user, the
> +      idle inhibitor will not be honored by the compositor; if the surface
> +      subsequently regains visibility the inhibitor takes effect once again.
> +      Likewise, the inhibitor isn't honored if the system was already idled at
> +      the time the inhibitor was established, although if the system later
> +      de-idles and re-idles the inhibitor will take effect.
> +    </description>
> +
> +    <request name="destroy" type="destructor">
> +      <description summary="destroy the idle inhibitor object">
> +	This removes the inhibitor effect from the associated wl_surface.
> +      </description>
> +    </request>
> +
> +  </interface>
> +</protocol>
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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