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

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

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...

I suspect that supertux fails to disable xscreensaver.

If this is really the case, then I think that supertux should
disable the screensaver while the user is playing (like media players
usually do, as far as I know), rather than relying on a continuous
stream of X-recognized input events (keyboard key presses, mouse
movements, ...) to prevent the screensaver from being activated.

Please fix this bug and/or forward my report upstream.

Thanks for your time!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages supertux depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.13-38
ii  libcurl3-gnutls           7.26.0-1+wheezy2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  8.0.5-4
ii  libglew1.7                1.7.0-3
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    8.0.5-4
ii  libogg0                   1.3.0-4
ii  libopenal1                1:1.14-4
ii  libphysfs1                2.0.3-1
ii  libsdl-image1.2           1.2.12-2
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.15-5
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libvorbis0a               1.3.2-1.3
ii  libvorbisfile3            1.3.2-1.3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2
ii  supertux-data             0.3.3-5

supertux recommends no packages.

supertux suggests no packages.

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