Please standardize Screen saver DBus interfaces

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue May 19 06:39:33 PDT 2009


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org> wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> Certainly not, using XSetScreenSaver means that if your app crashes,
>> you'll end up with a disabled screensaver, instead of having the
>> defaults restored.
> I'm speaking about XRestSceenSaver call periodically, not to disable the
> screen saver.

Actually it would be easier to create a simple DBus daemon script for
xscreensaver that used service activation and g_timeout_add_seconds to
call XResetScreenSaver than trying to fix things that are not broken
(forcing GNOME apps to call Xlib functions directly).

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki


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