#FEDORA 23 DISABLE XSCREENSAVER CODE#

Just wondering if anybody else has run into this, and what they've done, and if they did anything, if it was as ugly as it seems to me it would have to be, or if there's some elegant solution out there.

#FEDORA 23 DISABLE XSCREENSAVER CODE#

Has anybody encapsulated the code to inhibit all of these into a fast chunk of code? Oh, and it has to be GPL compatible.Ĭurrently my code simply whines piteously about the uncooperative screensaver developers if any screensaver is detected and the joystick is in use, and doesn't actually try to do anything other than advise the user to manually disable the screensaver, as the only other thing I can think to do is so incredibly ugly that I simply refuse to do it.

I put 'the' in quotes, because there are at least three different popular screensavers, xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, and kscreensaver, each with their own unique and clunky methods by which an application might inhibit them. I have a gtk based game program that's cranking out 30 frames/second while mixing several channels of audio, and since it's controlled by a joystick, sometimes 'the' screensaver will kick in.

I'm looking for a decent, non-lame way to inhibit xscreensaver, kscreensaver, or gnome-screensaver, whichever might be running, preferably in a screensaver-agnostic manner, and it absolutely positively must execute fast.

Fedora 23 disable xscreensaver