Bug#706582: supertux: fails to disable xscreensaver while the user is playing

[Vincent Cheng]

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Francesco Poli
<invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + unreproducible
>
>
> On Thu, 2 May 2013 02:22:17 -0700 Vincent Cheng wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Francesco Poli (wintermute)
>> <invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
>> > Package: supertux
>> > Version: 0.3.3-5
>> > Severity: normal
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > I noticed that, while the user is playing using a joystick or joypad only
>> > (that is to say, without touching the keyboard or the mouse, or any
>> > other input device recognized by X [1]), xscreensaver may get activated,
>> > thus disturbing the game experience.
>> > Any input from an X-recognized input device will quickly restore
>> > the ongoing fullscreen game, but, still, this is annoying.
>> >
>> > [1] I do not have xserver-xorg-input-joystick installed...
>>
>> Just curious, but does this still happen if you install
>> xserver-xorg-input-joystick?
>
> Well, I am a bit embarrassed: in order to see whether the bug was
> reproducible with xserver-xorg-input-joystick installed, I first tried
> to reproduce it again *before* installing xserver-xorg-input-joystick.
>
> And I failed!!!    :-/
>
> I am sure I experienced the bug once, otherwise I would have *not*
> reported it (I would rather avoid wasting Debian package maintainers'
> time, what the heck!).
>
> Nonetheless, I seem to be unable to reproduce it again.
>
> I even tried to set the xscreensaver timeout to 1 min!
> Nothing! The screensaver activates itself after 1 min of inactivity
> within the normal X session, but it seems to refrain from kicking in
> when I am playing supertux (even if I only use the joypad for an amount
> of time significantly longer than 1 min).
>
> That's very puzzling (and embarrassing!).
>
>
> So in summary:
>
>  * I saw this issue once, but I am now unable to reproduce it
>    [you *have* to believe me! I am *not* crazy! what are you doing?
>     leave me alone! leave me alone, I tell you!!   ;-)      ]
>
>  * I am tagging the bug as "unreproducible"
>    [embarrassing, when this is done by the very submitter of the bug
>     report!]
>
>  * I apologize for consuming your time with a semi-false alarm
>
>  * I propose we leave the report open for a reasonable amount of time,
>    just in case someone else experiences the bug and figures out how to
>    reproduce it...
>
> Please let me know what you think.
> Thanks!

No worries, I understand how it feels to hit a bug and file a report,
and then not be able to reproduce the same bug anymore. ;)

I'll leave this report open indefinitely, then.

Vincent