[PD] inhibit gnome screensaver from pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
> Is that all you have to do nowadays ?
>
> I think that back in 2003 or so, I had to hunt down four settings in  
> four different places, one as a "xset s off" command, one as  
> "killall xscreensaver" (or the equivalent in a dialogue), one as...  
> perhaps another "xset" command about dpmi, and then there was a BIOS  
> setting.
>
> I overlooked one of the four settings, and it was a big shame, as a  
> gallery employee had to come in several times per hour to press any  
> key.


Well, I did do other things, but it was the final thing that actually  
seemed to work.  Perhaps I needed to do all of them.  I also did:

xset s off
apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
(set the screensaver and power management prefs to none)

That's why it would be awesome to have this all in a simple-to-use  
[screensaver] object.  I added some more stuff to my [gnome- 
screensaver] object:
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