Smarter Screen saver

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

There is no need for the lock file, since xscreensaver already supports
temporary activation/deactivation by using xscreensaver-command utility.
In the GNOME version of screensaver, the right way would probably be to
implement a message exchange between screensaver and an application over
d-bus.

lakcaj wrote:

>It would be very easy to implement.  All you would need is a simple lock
>file that xscreensaver looks for before starting.  For example, when
>totem starts a DVD, it creates the file /var/run/noscreeny_totem.pid. 
>When it stops, it removes that file.  Same for mplayer, except
>noscreeny_mplayer.pid would be created.  I'm sure it would be trivial
>for someone that can code to make xscreensaver check for any files that
>start with noscreeny in /var/run before it starts.
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