Re: screensaver events

Thu Jan 16 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:
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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.
> 
Ok, so what if it's 'kill -9':ed then?

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

All things are relative, this would not be done very frequently so
even if it takes a long time, it would not be an issue.

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Håkan Hjort