On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
To answer my own question, it seems to be this command: gnome-screensaver-command --deactivate
Ah, I would have more readily found :
killall gnome-screensaver rm -f /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
Because, compared to xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver really follows
the mentality outlined in Uncyclopedia :« If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it. »
Because none of the options of each screensaver are available in the
GNOME dialogues, despite the fact that there's a shitload of XML
interface files coming with the plugins, and that the only goal of
those files is to actually allow to to build those dialogues
automatically, and despite the fact that it's already implemented
with Gtk outside of the GNOME distribution, possibly in a programme
that gnome-screensaver is a fork of._ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: +1.514.383.3801
After all that, I ended up having to add some stuff to /etc/X11/ xorg.conf because of fglrx/ATI issues:
Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "0" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "0" EndSection
It would be awesome to have a [screensaver] object that worked on all
platforms, so you could just hook up a toggle to it and control the
screensaver... I whipped up some rough, simple versions:
.hc
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