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

Bryce Harrington bryce at osg.samsung.com
Fri Aug 12 20:07:49 UTC 2016


On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 04:40:15PM +0800, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> As one probably already noticed, this was pushed earlier and was
> included in wayland-protocols 1.6.
> 
> 
> Jonas

Thanks again Jonas.

Bryce

> 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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