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

[Francesco Poli]

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!


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