Preventing screensaver when playing movie?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Mar 3 00:27:34 PST 2008


Le Lun 3 mars 2008 00:36, Graeme Gill a écrit :
> Erik wrote:
>> Graeme Gill skrev:
>>
>>>(such as xscreensaver and the gnome screensaver) don't hook into the
>>> X11 screensaver functions.
>>>
>>
>> You have reported those bugs, right? Please post the links here so
>> others can subscribe.
>
> They are not regarded as bugs by the authors, so they aren't going
> to change anything. Even if they were fixed, it doesn't
> solve the problem of deploying applications to existing systems.

Nevertheless, existing systems will be replaced by new systems
eventually, and getting these new systems in shape requires reporting
problems now. That is the only way to go forward, the alternative
(piling workarounds over workarounds) does not scale.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot



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