Bug 20042

Summary:	xdg-screensaver should support a hook to specify a different screensaver
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Brian Cameron <brian.cameron>
Component:	Portland	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Brian Cameron 2009-02-10 12:25:35 UTC

xdg-screensaver is currently hardcoded to launch particular screensavers for 
GNOME or KDE.  It should support an interface so that if a person wants to use
an alternative screensaver, they can specify it.  Perhaps xdg-screensaver could 
check for a file on the system, and if present, run that script to start the 
screensaver rather than doing its current magic.

Comment 1 Jarno Suni 2014-01-08 18:51:29 UTC

One approach is to check, if a screensaver daemon is running. Supporting xautolock could give user a way to set locker, but "xautolock -locknow" returns exit code 0 even if "nowlocker" is not defined (xautolock 2.2).

Please check my attachment for the following bug report about a locking script for Xfce: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3770 It tries to use an available daemonless locker, if it doesn't detect a screensaver daemon.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:29:26 UTC

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