Re: screensaver events

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On Thursday January 16, 2003 02:51, Bj|rn Englund wrote:
> Wed Jan 15 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > If all goes well, apps will be able to disable the KDE 3.2 screensaver
> > and energy saving temporarily by running
> >
> > dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface pause
> >
> > then return to normal with
> >
> > dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface resume
>
> If an app does "pause" and then crashes there won't be a resume,
> so a "reset" option which resets the timer would be better(or also
> needed). Or did I miss something?

Hm, good point.  I suppose an app that uses pause should have a crash 
handler that will resume.

Reset would require the app to do so at intervals, which would be 
inefficient.

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