[Portland] xdg-screensaver.in

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:12, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 04:14, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> > I think it makes more sense to have an API in the X-server to "suspend"
> > the screensaver for a defined amount of time rather than disable it
> > entirely. That way you don't end up with a disabled screensaver when an
> > application crashes, which would have a security impact.
>
> this is exactly what has already been done ... i needed this for kde4 as
> well and frederikh got busy on it =) of course, this is for a future
> release of x.org ...

 And for future releases of screensavers as well. If I'm not mistaken no 
screensaver implementation actually uses the XScreensaver extension for 
anything more than just the timeouts, so without rewritting some parts of 
them there's no screensaver that'd be actually affected by it.

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