Use org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver API to inhibit screensaver

As discussed on ticket 4739.

I've implemented the "freedesktop"1 interface in GNOME, it will be available for GNOME 3.6 (the current version) and later2.

Please use this (the inhibit/uninhibit calls) to implement the screensaver inhibition in VLC.

assigned to @Courmisch

added Component::Video: X11 Platform::GNU/Linux labels

changed milestone to %2.1.x maintenance bugs

So basically, org.freedesktop.Screensaver should be used instead of org.freedesktop.PowerManagement, shouldn't it?

Replying to [comment:2 courmisch]:

So basically, org.freedesktop.Screensaver should be used instead of org.freedesktop.PowerManagement, shouldn't it?

Yep, though you could probably drop using both interfaces and have only one. Won't hurt having both.

Draft spec: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/idle-inhibition-spec/

I don't understand how I'm supposed to deal with audio playback. We need to keep the processor and memory running, but we don't care about the screensaver.

That would be a huge regression from existing builds.

added Status::fixed label

closed

commit 5fe4b004 Author: Rémi Denis-Courmont remi@remlab.net Date: Fri Dec 7 22:23:27 2012 +0200

dbus_screensaver: add o.fd.ScreenSaver support (fixes [#7824](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/7824))

Original author: remi@remlab.net