[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] kde screensaver stuff using system()

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hello,
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:16:36PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> 2007/2/7, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> >On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:53:10PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >> I do feel a bit uncomfortable about this, it seems extremely like a hack
> >> to me.
> >> Is there no better way?
> >> Do we really have to handle this screensaver mess?
> >> Any other comments?
> >
> >We were talking about this on IRC the other day.  A problem that we
> >currently have is that gnome screensaver is not stopped, which is an
> >annoyance for users.  An annoyance that distros have started working
> >around in multiple different and mostly hackish ways.
> >
> >A way out of this dilemma might be generating keypress events at regular
> >intervals.  It promises to work across all platforms and not need to be
> >extended for the screensaver du jour ..
> 
> Ever since Win98 Windows provides an API called
> SetThreadExecutionState() that can be used as a heartbeat function to
> prohibit screensavers. Anything similar in X Windows?

It saddens me to say, but even without that in this regard windows is
ahead: it sends the active window a message that asks for permission to
activate the screensaver, and AFAIK this is even already used in MPlayer...
I think it was really a bad idea that applications have implemented such
hacks as our kde screensaver support, it works like crap but good enough
to take away the pressure to find a real solution.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger