Re: [Tuxnes-devel] Screen Saver Patch & DGA Question

[Jason D. S. <js...@de...>]

Stea Greene wrote:
> 
>         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.

I often leave tuxnes running for a long time (during which time the
screensaver *should* come on).

A patch like this should instead "re-awaken" the screen saver/screen
blinking on each joystick input (presumably keyboard inputs already do
this).  Then we would have the proper behavior.

However, I don't know if this is possible...

jason short