2011/4/5 Kristian Høgsberg <[email protected]> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > what is the plan for screensave/screenlocker support in wayland? > > > > The support in X is a fail in several ways. > > It sure is. The plan for Wayland is that the lock screen is just part > of the compositor. There are no problems with detecting idle or other > applications having grabs this way, and the compositor completely > controls what goes on the screen so you don't have other applications > raising their window over the screensaver. There doesn't even have to > be a screensaver window, the compositor can just paint a black screen. > > It is of course possible to define a plugin or an out-of-process (fork > a special Wayland client and give it a special surface to render to, > similar to your second option below) mechanism for rendering fun > screensavers. > > Kristian > > How will apps like mplayer/vlc/browsers-playing-videos tell the compositor that they are "busy" drawing and that the lock should NOT be engaged even though there hasn't been any keyboard/mouse activity for long stretches? As compared to "default" apps that just paint "im bored" over and over again, where the idle lock should get switched on...
--friar
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