[Bug 1419] please resurrect the "XIdle" extension from X11R5

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------- Additional Comments From ajax at nwnk.net  2005-02-07 06:56 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> However I'm curious why the MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension doesn't meet your needs:
> It is very easy to receive an event when the time for the screen saver has
> expired (ie. no input has been made). So I assume that the overhead with the
> 'screen saver window' doesn't meet your needs.

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html

There's a section in there about MIT-SCREEN-SAVER being ugly when fading into
the screensaver (the way you can do on SGI and XIDLE-having machines).  That
alone justifies it for me.

Roland's comment about extending XIDLE to report idle times per-window seems
excessive in the presence of XEVIE, which any serious compmgr will end up using.
 Per-screen almost makes sense but would assuredly confuse users (neither XP nor
OS X do independent screen saver timeouts per screen).          
     
     
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