[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] remove screensaver mess

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:43:39AM +0200, Onur Küçük wrote:
> > this removes most of the screensaver support mess and only adds a
> > XResetScreenSaver.
> > I'd like to know which screensavers do not work with this.
> 
>  SVN rev 25553 wth this patch applied, all work fine in KDE 3.5.8 ,
> xorg-server 7.2.
> 
>  DPMS is not turned off (as xset says) but neither dpms nor screensaver
> gets in the way while MPlayer is running, and when I quit MPlayer they
> come back to life after their respective timeouts come.
> 
> > The next variant would be system(useroption) instead/in addition to
> > XResetScreenSaver, here I'd also like to know if there are any
> > screensavers where this wouldn't work either.
> 
>  If there will be a "next variant", I am in favour of "in addition to".
> This kind of stuff should be done through X libraries,
>  system(somecommand) style is too messy to be the first choice.

XScreenSaverSuspend is the first choice, though it requires and
additional library. Who does still consider XResetScreenSaver necessary?

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger