Bug#450495: Inhibit applet should also allow inhibiting the screensaver

[Josselin Mouette]

forwarded 450495 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410154
thanks

Le mercredi 07 novembre 2007 à 23:35 +0100, Erich Schubert a écrit :
> > I agree this would be nice, bug it is also the job of the presentation
> > tool to disable the screensaver.
> 
> However many video players, games etc. still fail to do that. They often
> blame SDL to be responsible for disabling the screensaver.

Yes, and unfortunately I don't see SDL being fixed in the future, as
there aren't many people interested in working on it.

> I've been resorting to killing gnome-screensaver, so an inhibit tool
> would still be nice.

I'm not denying that. In fact, it has already been reported upstream,
see the URL above.

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