[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use XScreenSaverSuspend if supported

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Dec 22, 2007 1:24 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:33:33PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> [...]
> > Reimar, I'm against KDE removal and exactly because there are KDE
> > versions that doesn't honor XSS. However I think that it should only
> > be triggered by command line (aka
> > -stop-screensaver=kde/gnome/xscreensaver ). I won't mind if all this
> > crap is removed if we commit the event generator (mouse movement
> > etc...).
>
> The KDE thing is exactly one of the completely broken things that
> leaves the screensaver disabled forever if e.g. MPlayer crashes.
> Even a -screensaveer-ping-cmd option or something like that which is
> called via system on each xscreensaver_heartbeat seems better to me.
> We just should make it very clear that it's not our problem if they
> decide to use this and end up putting something exploitable in (e.g.
> something involving "./file") instead of fixing their screensaver.

That solution is fine with me.
We could probably add 2 sample command lines of how to ping kde or
gnome savers, so user just to uncomment or copy/paste them.