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

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------- Additional Comments From roland.mainz at nrubsig.org  2005-02-07 07:28 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
[snip]
> 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.

Using XEVIE here may be possible but it would be a pain. Why having the compmgr
to track each and every single event per window when the same information is
already in the Xserver ? XIDLE would just expose these values.
And the idea with compmgr usage was just an example - there are likely more
places where these values could be used to implement usefull stuff...

> Per-screen almost makes sense but would assuredly confuse users (neither XP 
> nor OS X do independent screen saver timeouts per screen).

AFAIK both XP and MacOSX treat both monitors as a single surface - but X11 also
allows that multiple monitors act completely independently ("traditional
multihead") so having (optional) ways to do the screen blanking independently
sounds a good idea for me...          
     
     
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