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Disabling the screensaver
Friday, December 15, 2006 ★ 13:55 ★ Categories Gnome, Programming
Some applications need to disable/inhibit the screensaver in some circumstances:
- For Totem, this needs to be done when a movie is played fullscreen.
- The presentation mode in Evince should also prevent the screensaver blanking the screen (to prevent embarassing situations during presentations).
Bastien Nocera implemented this feature for Totem some time ago, and it works for both Gnome Screensaver and XScreensaver. Recently, I’ve adapted his totem-specific code to work with Evince as well. This feature will be in the next release. See bug 338889 for details. Right now it’s quite easy to cut and paste it into your own application, since it’s in a separate library. See evince/cut-n-paste/totem-screensaver for more information.
Now, my opinion is this is a typical feature that should have Gnome-wide API, just as the “network status” API recently discussed on desktop-devel-list.
A totally unrelated picture.
Btw, Robert Love, your photo reminded me of his buddies, as shown above on one of my pictures shot in Prague.
Random photo from Various pictures (June, 2005)
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Wouter Bolsterlee, also known as uws, a postmodern geek living in the Netherlands. Read more about me…
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