Debian first experience made a bit easier...

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Mon Sep 14 04:07:43 CEST 2009


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.

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