[Xcb] xcb_set_screen_saver weird behavior

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 03/10/14 08:32 AM, Philip Rushik wrote:
> Found this in xcb/xproto.h
>
> xcb_set_screen_saver (xcb_connection_t *c  /**< */,
>                        int16_t           timeout  /**< */,
>                        int16_t           interval  /**< */,
>                        uint8_t           prefer_blanking  /**< */,
>                        uint8_t           allow_exposures  /**< */);
>
> Found a documentation stub here:
> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/man/man3/xcb_set_screen_saver.3.xhtml
>
>
> I read in the xscreensaver source that xsetscreensaver (seems to be the xlib
> equivalent) takes the number of seconds until the screensaver should kick in. I
> tried that but still get no screensaver events. However, I figured it might be
> milliseconds instead, so I tried 60000 for the timeout and then I get a
> screensaver event immediately after calling xcb_set_screen_saver() and then
> nothing ever again, but obviously the function does _something_.

Since it's a thin wrapper around the protocol, the best docs for what it does
are likely the protocol spec:

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html#requests:SetScreenSaver

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