(In reply to Sergey Kondakov from comment #86) > 2) GNOME screensaver requires the core GNOME framework to go with it, not > just GTK. Kinda overkill for a screensaver. Scratch that ! I just read up on: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/10/has-gnome-3-decided-that-people-shouldnt-want-screen-savers/ (from XSS author) https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-screensaver (Ubuntu fix plan that gone nowhere) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/994612 (report about complete uselessness of GNOME SS)
Long story short: Gnome gone Reverse-Xzibit and removed screensaver out of... their screensaver. Which locks the screen... but HAS NOT SCREENSAVERS. > Which makes whole thing pretty much useless. Even more than i imagined and complained previously. > Moreover, aforementioned "Caffeine" Ubuntu hack is pretty crude... Looks like in non-obsolete versions they removed XSS support... if it even worked. Which makes it also not an option. > And i don't exactly expect "modern features". I expect _Firefox to > inhibit/suspend a screensaver when it draws a video. Any videos and any > screensavers_. All of that above makes XSS The Only Option of having actual screensavers under X (except using KDE SS BUT ONLY under KDE session, because it's not even a binary). And for that to work either: 1) FF devs must play nice with XSS 2) XSS dev should be persuaded to provide dbus interface as dbus today is the cross-DE daemon interface 3) XSS could be forked by a hacker who's not afraid of dbus In any case this bug cannot be closed as "FIXED" because actual screesaver is not getting disabled under Linux, only lockers are. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434476 Title: screensaver starts while playing HTML5 videos To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/434476/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
