On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:33:33 +0200 "Ivan Kalvachev" <ikalvachev@gmail.com> wrote:
One more remark, xscreensaver seems to honor XSS extension if available (it even have workarounds for quite many history bugs in it).
At least in Debian, XSS support in xscreensaver is turned off by default, and the man page states that the XSS support will be eventually removed: mitSaverExtension (class Boolean) This resource controls whether the MIT-SCREEN-SAVER server extension will be used to decide whether the user is idle. However, the default for this resource is false, because even if this extension is available, it is flaky (and it also makes the fade option not work properly.) Use of this extension is strongly discouraged. Support for it will probably be removed eventually. Actually, it isn't even built by default - there is neither an autodetection, nor a configure option; it could be probably enabled by config.h editing. I didn't check other distros if they bother with enabling it. AFAICS with the current state of x11_common.c, screensaver disabling is defunct in the default install for the majority of users. The ping command option that would allow one to stay out of this mess would be very welcome :) Regards, -- Jindrich Makovicka