Debian first experience made a bit easier...

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at vanille-media.de
Tue Sep 15 00:11:54 CEST 2009


On Monday 14 September 2009 04:07:43 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:42:49 -0400 Stefan Monnier
> <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>
>
> said:
> > >    Or more precisely, for "$DISPLAY on fso-controlled device" at
> > > runtime, not installation time. I think that mess will be larger than
> > > that of having two icons, menu items or whatever the launcher makes of
> > > it, for the user to choose between.
> >
> > The solution is to use a scheme where the blanking code and the
> > application use a standard protocol to sync-up.
> >
> > AFAIK, there is such a protocol already (which is hopefully used by all
> > tools like VLC, Xine, mplayer, totem, at least when in fullscreen
> > mode).  So mokomaze should use it.  And the FSO side should also
> > support it.
>
> x screensaver extension. you can request x to suspend blanking until u
> un-suspend it (or your x connection closes - eg u exit or crash). FSO tho
> wants to re-invent this wheel.

Bzzt. Wrong. IdleNotifier is optional as are the rules in oeventsd.

:M:





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