[Xcb] xcb_set_screen_saver weird behavior

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Mar 10 20:03:35 PDT 2014


On 03/10/14 08:00 PM, Philip Rushik wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
> <mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     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
>     <http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html#requests:SetScreenSaver>
>
>     --
>              -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>     <mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>               Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>
>
> Yeah, there is some more information in there, but not enough for me to get it
> working. I checked also the MIT-SCREENSAVER extension specification, but there
> is basically nothing there. I'm sorry but its very poorly documented.

Yep, that's the way we found it, and no one has reverse engineered it enough to
write documentation, especially about the screensaver portions of the API which
few people ever need to deal with.

Sorry about that, and patches to the docs are welcome if you reverse engineer
enough to figure it out.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc


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