Smarter Screen saver

Stephen Shirley diamond+ubuntu-devel at nonado.net
Tue Sep 20 07:39:12 CDT 2005


Andy Fitzsimon wrote:
> Right there with you mate.
> 
> totem + gnome-screensaver should talk
> 
> how easy is it to sniff totems current behaviour ?  if it is then
> gnome-screensaver has no excuse.

The proper way to do this is to have apps such as totem notify
gnome-screensaver that it should not engage when a movie is playing.
That's fairly simple to do (and i'd be surprised if it hasn't been done).

Steve




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