[PD] inhibit gnome screensaver from pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> To answer my own question, it seems to be this command:
>> gnome-screensaver-command --deactivate
>
> Ah, I would have more readily found :
>
>  killall gnome-screensaver
>  rm -f /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
>
> Because, compared to xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver really follows  
> the mentality outlined in Uncyclopedia :
>
>  « If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it. »
>
> Because none of the options of each screensaver are available in the  
> GNOME dialogues, despite the fact that there's a shitload of XML  
> interface files coming with the plugins, and that the only goal of  
> those files is to actually allow to to build those dialogues  
> automatically, and despite the fact that it's already implemented  
> with Gtk outside of the GNOME distribution, possibly in a programme  
> that gnome-screensaver is a fork of.
>
> _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ...
> | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: +1.514.383.3801

After all that, I ended up having to add some stuff to /etc/X11/ 
xorg.conf because of fglrx/ATI issues:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "BlankTime" "0"
    Option "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection

It would be awesome to have a [screensaver] object that worked on all  
platforms, so you could just hook up a toggle to it and control the  
screensaver...  I whipped up some rough, simple versions:

.hc
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