Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Forest <[email protected]> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
* Package name : joystickwake Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Contact: Forest <[email protected]> * URL : https://codeberg.org/forestix/joystickwake * License : MIT (Expat) Programming Lang: Python Description : joystick-aware screen waker Linux gamers often find themselves unexpectedly staring at a blank screen, because their display server fails to recognize game controllers as input devices, allowing the screen blanker to activate during gameplay. This program works around the problem by suppressing screen blankers while joystick activity is detected. Other attempts to address this problem include Caffeine, which only works in X11 and only for full-screen games, and Feral Interactive's GameMode, which comes with extra baggage and blocks screen savers even when a game is left paused with no user input. I am the author of Joystickwake, and have been maintaining its Ubuntu packages in a PPA for roughly a decade. However, since Debian is now my primary distribution and I don't expect that to change any time soon, packaging Joystickwake directly for Debian seems more sensible. It would also relieve the disappointment that I recently noticed on social media over Joystickwake's absence from Debian-based distros other than Ubuntu. I do not plan to maintain it from within a team; I think I can handle it on my own.
