Preventing screensaver when playing movie?
mcnichol at austin.ibm.com
mcnichol at austin.ibm.com
Wed Mar 5 14:21:38 PST 2008
> From: "Scott J. Harmon" <harmon at ksu.edu>
>
> I don't know much about the internals of the X server, but doesn't it
> need to keep track of clients so that when they are killed memory and
> other resources are released? Why would the screensaver suspend be any
> different. IMO, the app should call XScreenSaverSuspend(True) *once*
> (not 30 frames per second). And then either call
> XScreenSaverSuspend(False) when it is done, or simply exit and let X
> clean up.
Ok, so what happens when 2 different clients use XScreenSaverSuspend(True).
What happens when one of them terminates.... ??
Dan
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