Bug#518237: gnome-screensaver: Screen goes dark in fullscreen games

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 05 mars 2009 à 00:07 +0100, Stephan Fuhrmann a écrit :
> The gnome screen blanker makes the screen darker after 10 minutes of gameplay on
> Quake 3 based games, for example Enemy Territory (free download). Gameplay degrades
> because to that. Darkening is turned off in energy settings of the screen
> saver, but it darkens anyway.
> 
> This means the following doesn't work:
> 1.) Darkening the display is turned off (=never), but it happens anyway.
> 2.) Activity in game window (mouse, keyboard) is not detected.
> 
> I verified the effect with stopping the screensaver (problem gone) and
> continuing it (problem comes again).
> 
> The problem was not there with the old xscreensaver from Debian Etch.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't come up with an easier testcase.

This is presumably because the games in question don’t properly
deactivate the screen saver.

If they use SDL, that’s a known bug; otherwise, that’s a new one in the
games in question.

Cheers,
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