[Tuxnes-devel] Screen Saver Patch & DGA Question

[Stea G. <st...@cs...>]

	First I must say thanks to all for such a great app! The only
real problem I encountered with it is that since it does not disable the
screen saver, and since XFree86 does not see input from my gamepad as
activity, the screensaver would come on as I was playing games, which
was very detrimental to my continued survival in said games.
	Attached is a patch (most of the code simply ripped from xawtv),
based on the current CVS tuxnes code, that fixes this by disabling the
active screen saver, and DPMS screen blanking if present, and then
re-enables (only if it was enabled initially) them on exit.  I tried to
keep things to the same coding style as the rest of the code.  I have
only tested this on my Linux machine, but it should work on any X system
- DPMS should be automatically detected by the configure script if
present.

	Also, is anyone working on, or interested in working on a DGA
fullscreen mode? I would really like one so I can get fullscreen play
without having to manually zoom in and align the virtual window with
tuxnes' display.  I could write such a thing, but I am unfamiliar with
the actual rendering of the NES output, which in the tuxnes code seems
to be intertwined with the graphics display itself.  It would be much
faster if I had the help of someone who is familiar with this aspect of
tuxnes.
							--Steaphan Greene