Re: screensaver events

Tue Jan 14 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> On Tuesday January 14, 2003 02:47, Damien U wrote:
> > I used to run the KDE screensaver, and somehow xine still managed to
> > stop that from coming up. I now use the xscreensaver verison 4.00
> > because they look nicer :) haven't tried ogle with xscreensaver yet! But
> > since like 65% of linux users use KDE or something, it'd be a good idea
> > to be able to disable the KDE screensavers (I dunno what xine does, it
> > doesn't mention anything about KDE, but it works...)
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> Temporarily disabling the KDE-controlled screensaver and power saving is 
> the job of a KDE UI to ogle, I say.
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We'd be glad to do it too if we knew how.  Preferably without introducing a
dependency on KDE, so you can still install/build it without having KDE.
As with XScreensaver, one does not want to turn it off and resart it after
exiting Ogle.  That could leave the computer without a screensaver if Ogle
crashed or was killed.  In the case of XScreensaver we a run the external
command every minute during playback that resets the idle time in the
screensaver. I.e it's still active we just tell it that every now and then
that 'the user is really using the computer even though he/she is not 
typing or moving the mouse'.

Anyone know some KDE guru that would be able to tell us how to do this?

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Håkan Hjort