Preventing screensaver when playing movie?
Erik
esigra at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 11:22:37 PST 2008
Dotan Cohen skrev:
> On 26/02/2008, Harald Braumann <harry at unheit.net> wrote:
>
>> > How can the media player achieve this with xorg?
>>
>> AFAIK xine sends fake shift key press events. I guess this is the
>> safest way of fooling any programme that tries to do something after an
>> inactivity time-out.
>>
I have looked at XTestFakeKeyEvent. Is that what xine is using?
> That could be problematic with Sticky Keys users, like myself. I
> might just hit Enter in an email, and have it registered as
> Shift-Enter and therefore sent, when I do not want that.
>
Is there a safe key to send? Or some even better way? I want it to be
implement as an API call in SDL, so that all SDL programs can use it. It
is not a good idea to depend on KDE or GNOME since SDL depends on X11
but not KDE or GNOME.
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