On Qui, 2006-07-06 at 22:07 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 13:45 +0200, Adriaan Peeters wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 15:35 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > > Anyway, I published version 0.11.1 which disables messages during > > > screen saving periods. However, it only works with gnome-screensaver, > > > not xscreensaver, because neither gnome-screensaver nor xscreensaver > > > implement the X screen saver extension (XScreenSaver(3)), so there isn't > > > any standard way to find out when the screensaver is active. At least > > > gnome-screensaver sends D-BUS signals for this... > > > > Do you use gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver? I will try to get support > > for dbus in xscreensaver as well, but that will probably take a while. > > xscreensaver at the moment. I can try out gnome-screensaver though. I'm > quite surprised that neither of them implement the X extension, since > they are the main free software X screensavers.
It's quite true; I didn't believe what I was being told in IRC, then I wrote a C program and could see by my own eyes neither program implements the XSS extension. It seems that nowadays de XSS extension is only used by screensavers and IM programs to find out how much time the user has been idle, everything else isn't used. Cheers. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic.
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