Screen-saver triggering while on text console

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

There's an annoying thing with screen-savers: they trigger while I'm on
the text console. Even worse, it may ask me for a passwd when that is
enabled...

I know that the X server is not supposed to get keypresses while a text
console is active, but could we imagine a way for the kernel to notify
the X server of console idleness?

Samuel