Suppressing the screen saver in a full screen game

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Thu Apr 16 13:59:32 CDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> Ubuntu 9.04's new notification system is really nice and non obtrusive, 
> however it can still get in the way if you need the entire screen. 
> Accordingly, the notifications system has been designed to not draw 
> notifications when a program such as a movie player is telling the 
> operating system to suppress the screen saver.
>
> I propose we enable this functionality for Wine whenever we've switched to 
> a full screen mode.  I assume there's also a similar function for 
> applications on Windows, so if we haven't done so already we should 
> probably implement that and suppress the screen saver then as well.
>
>
> Thoughts?

I think the app is supposed to do this for instance via

dlls/user32/sysparams.c and the SPI_SETSCREENSAVERRUNNING SystemParameter

or hook into ddraw in some methods.

Ciuao, MArcus



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