Comment 5 for bug 1266953
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| Reuben Thomas (rrt) wrote Re: Caffeine does not stop XScreenSaver while using Totem | #5 |
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(Get the code!)
[I have retitled this bug and will mark other bugs as duplicates, as this issue is common and obviously needs a home.]
Caffeine previously contained code to work with lots of different screensavers. I removed this code in 2.5. Unfortunately, it seems that I was over-optimistic: I thought that most modern desktops implemented the freedesktop idle inhibition spec, but it turns out that they don't.
Paulius Vitkus kindly provided a patch to reintroduce a lot of this support:
https:/
After some discussion, I concluded that the best way to implement this support was to do so in xdg-screensaver, and have Caffeine use just xdg-screensaver. This keeps complexity out of Caffeine, and puts it where other applications and desktops can benefit and contribute, in xdg-utils.
I would be very happy to accept a patch which makes Caffeine use xdg-screensaver (and only xdg-screensaver); and similarly, I'd be very happy to help get a patch for xdg-screensaver into xdg-utils. (In particular, xdg-screensaver does not currently support the freedesktop idle inhibition method, in any flavour). Conversely, I won't accept patches which add all this functionality back into Caffeine.
You can find the xdg-utils repository at: http://