Bug 29860

Summary: Use D-Bus API for GNOME screensaver
Product: Portland Reporter: Michael T. Dean <mtdean>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Fathi Boudra <fabo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: rdieter
Version: 1.1.0Keywords: patch
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: Change GNOME screensaver to use D-Bus API

Description Michael T. Dean 2010-08-28 19:52:40 UTC 
Created attachment 38253 [details] [review]
Change GNOME screensaver to use D-Bus API

Changes the screensaver_gnome_screensaver to use the GNOME D-Bus API, as documented at http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-screensaver/docs/gnome-screensaver.html and using the same approach used by the "Use SimulateUserActivity instead of Inhibit for D-Bus screensavers" patch in Bug #26085 and the "Change screensaver_freedesktop's interpretation of GetActive" patch in Bug #29859.

Note, also, that GNOME screensaver's "legacy" inhibit support is currently broken ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579430 ), and gnome-screensaver-command --poke does not work.  This patch changes xdg-screensaver so it no longer uses gnome-screensaver-command for control, so--in addition to using the "preferred" API for GNOME screensaver control--it also works around the broken legacy inhibit issue.

This patch does not change detectDE or the use of gnome-screensaver-command -q to determine DE.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2010-11-18 14:41:17 UTC 
Looks like a winner, I'll try to review/test and commit this soon.

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