Preventing screensaver when playing movie?

[Scott J. Harmon]

mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:
>> From: "Scott J. Harmon" <harmon at ksu.edu>
>>
>> I don't know much about the internals of the X server, but doesn't it 
>> need to keep track of clients so that when they are killed memory and 
>> other resources are released?  Why would the screensaver suspend be any 
>> different.  IMO, the app should call XScreenSaverSuspend(True) *once* 
>> (not 30 frames per second).  And then either call 
>> XScreenSaverSuspend(False) when it is done, or simply exit and let X 
>> clean up.
> 
> Ok, so what happens when 2 different clients use XScreenSaverSuspend(True).
> What happens when one of them terminates.... ??
> 
> Dan


Nothing. (implementation detail---possibly a reference counter in the 
server is decremented and tested).

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Scott J. Harmon
PhD Candidate
Kansas State University

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